Invisible crowd

Canetti also insists that the ‘invisible crowd’ is of great importance (48). He claims: “Over the whole earth, wherever there are men, is found the conception of the invisible dead”. By invisible dead, he refers to spirits and ghosts who haunt the world after they have died. In the novel “Dragons of a Fallen Sun”, set in an alternate universe, ghosts become trapped in the realm of the living and leech all magic from the world. [mais aqui]