Editing Elias Canetti (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Canetti Peak.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[Canetti Peak]], in the [[South Shetland Islands]], [[Antarctica]], named after Elias Canetti]]

In 1934 in Vienna he married [[Veza Canetti|Veza (Venetiana) Taubner-Calderon]] (1897–1963), who acted as his muse and devoted literary assistant. Canetti remained open to relationships with other women. He had a short affair with the sculptor [[Anna Mahler]], the daughter of the composer [[Gustav Mahler]]. In 1938, after the ''[[Anschluss]]'' with Germany, the Canettis moved to [[London]]. He became closely involved with the painter [[Marie-Louise von Motesiczky]], who was to remain a close companion for many years. He also had a close relationship with the writer Frieda Benedikt (1916-1953) (pseudonym Anna Sebastian), whom Canetti had already met in Vienna in 1936.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uklitag.com/proyecto/waiting-in-the-snow-outside-your-door/ | title=Waiting in the Snow Outside Your Door – Uklitag }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2002/literature-and-illustration-l02303/lot.416.html | title=(#416) Canetti, Elias--Benedikt, Friedl (''Anna Sebastian''). Typescript in English of her novel ''The Monster'', an excoriating fictional portait of her lover elias canetti, apparently with manuscript corrections in Iris Murdoch's hand }}</ref> He was one of [[Iris Murdoch]]'s lovers. Her husband [[John Bayley (writer)|John Bayley]]'s memoir refers to him variously as 'the Dichter', 'sage', and 'the monster of Hampstead'.<ref>Johannes G. Pankau, 'Images of Male and Female in Canetti's works,' in Dagmar C. G. Lorenz (ed.), ''A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti,'' Camden House (2004)  2009 {{isbn|978-1-571-13408-0}} pp-218-237 p.221.</ref><ref>[[John Bayley (writer)|John Bayley]],''Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch,'' [[Duckworth Books|Gerald Duckworth & Co.]] 1998 {{isbn| 978-0-715-64427-0}}</ref> Canetti, who demanded submission from women, later mercilessly skewered Murdoch in his posthumous memoir ''Party im Blitz'' (2003).<ref>Ulrich Plass, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/27944771 'Quixotic Struggles:New Books by and about Elias Canetti,']  Austrian Studies, Vol. 13, 2005, pp. 234-246,p.239-240</ref>

After Veza died in 1963, Canetti married Hera Buschor (1933–1988), with whom he had a daughter, Johanna, in 1972. Canetti's brother [[Jacques Canetti]] settled in Paris, where he championed a revival of French [[chanson]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1997/06/10/jacques-canetti-le-decouvreur-de-brassens-et-de-brel_3787006_1819218.html | title=Jacques Canetti, Le découvreur de Brassens et de Brel | work=Le Monde| author=Patrick Labesse | date=10 June 1997 | access-date=22 January 2015}}</ref> Despite being a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain until the 1970s, receiving British citizenship in 1952. For his last 20 years, Canetti lived mostly in [[Zürich]].