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Auto-da-Fé (original title Die Blendung, "The Blinding") is a 1935 novel by Elias Canetti. The novel explores the descent of an academic into madness, culminating in the destruction of his private library. It was translated into English in 1946 by C. V. Wedgwood. The first American edition of Wedgwood's translation, published in 1947, was titled The Tower of Babel. Auto-da-fé refers to the burning of heretics by the Inquisition.