Elias Canetti recounts his childhood in Bulgaria, England, Austria, and his adolescence in Switzerland. The Spanish origin of his family, the multilingual environment in the small Bulgarian town of Rousse, the patriarchal structure of the Jewish family, the first impressions from school in Manchester during the height of the British Empire, the outbreak of World War I in Vienna, the wartime and post-war period in democratic Zurich, the loss of his beloved father, the adoration for his mother, the intense emotions on the road to adolescence, all form the backdrop in which the child grows up to become one of the greatest writers in the world. "The Language That Wasn't Cut" is the first part of Canetti's autobiographical trilogy and is translated for the first time in Greece.