George Steiner

¿Cómo debemos valorar la función del lenguaje después de que haya servido para expresar falsedades en los regímenes totalitarios, después de que haya sido arrastrado a la vulgaridad y la imprecisión de las democracias de consumo masificado? ¿Cómo responderá el lenguaje futuro a las exigencias científicas de expresiones más exactas, como la matemática o la lógica? Steiner consagra este volumen a la vida del lenguaje a través de los tiempos,...

Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt, vengeance, language, and the power of evil-each undiminished over time. George Steiner's stunning novel, now with a new afterword, will continue to provoke...

La tragedia Antígona de Sófocles no sólo sacudió la conciencia de los espectadores del teatro griego. A lo largo de los siglos ha dado lugar a incontables relecturas, desde la antigua Roma hasta el surrealismo del siglo xx. George Steiner –para quien "la crítica literaria debiera nacer de una deuda de amor para con la obra comentada"– reconstruye el proceso de transmisión del mito de Antígona en todas sus formas de expresión, no sólo...

The three stories bundled in this book are tales about war and love, about memories keeping their cancerous hold.

The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. "Europe,†? he writes, "is the place where Goethe's garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death.†? It is, in other words, a continent rich with contradiction, whose many tensions-cultural, social, political, economic, and religious-have for centuries conspired...

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else "writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing," while the New York Times says of his works that "the erudition is almost as extraordinary as the prose: dense, knowing, allusive." Reading in many languages, celebrating the survival of high culture in the face of...

Acclaimed literary critic George Steiner on two of the literary canon's greatest and most influential writers "Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters loom over Western literature. By explaining how Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky differ from each other, Steiner...

An engrossing and provocative look at the decline of tragedy in modern art "All men are aware of tragedy in life. But tragedy as a form of drama is not universal." So begins George Steiner's adept analysis of the demise of classic tragedy as a dramatic depiction of heroism and suffering. In The Death of Tragedy, Steiner examines the uniqueness and importance of the Greek classical tragedy-from antiquity to the age of Jean Racine and William Shakespeare-as...

A collection of essays and articles about the life of language, and its role in a world where words are used to manipulate as often as they are used to convey meaning Language and Silence is a book about language-and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic...

A rich and evocative study of one of modern history's most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand master   In Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies of Heidegger's work and his influence on modern society, offering a clear and accessible analysis of the philosopher's more difficult ideas, from the human condition...