The Nobel Prize-winning author Eliot Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakech, but this visit remained with him for the rest of his life. In his work "The Voices of Marrakech," he captures the essence of this place: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels, and the souks - and, most importantly for Canetti, the sounds of the city, from the cries of blind beggars and the pleas of children for alms to the outer silence in the still rooms above the crowds. In these well-categorized essays, Canetti examines the feelings that Marrakech evoked in him and the people who influenced him forever.