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| Author: George/ Boyers Steiner | Editor: Robert Boyers |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10: 0811217043
ISBN-13: 9780811217040
Buy.com Sku: 208068595
Publish Date: 1/1/2009
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| An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine. |
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From the Publisher:
Collects fifty-three signature pieces as originally published between 1967 and 1997, in a wide-ranging anthology that shares the influential author's perspectives on such topics as paganism, the literature of the gulag, and the history of chess. Original.Collects fifty-three signature pieces as originally published between 1967 and 1997, in a wide-ranging anthology that shares the influential author's perspectives on such topics as paganism, the literature of the gulag, and the history of chess. Original. |
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In a career covering more than 40 years, George Steiner has written influentially on everything from Dostoevsky to the Holocaust, philosophy and translation studies. This collection provides a robust selection of his work for The New Yorker, for which he has written for 30 years. Sure to be essential reading for long-time followers of Steiner's thought, these pieces, largely reviews, will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to readers unfamiliar with one of the most wide-ranging intellectuals of the last half-century.
In a career covering more than 40 years, George Steiner has written influentially on everything from Dostoevsky to the Holocaust, philosophy and translation studies. This collection provides a robust selection of his work for The New Yorker, for which he has written for 30 years. Sure to be essential reading for long-time followers of Steiner's thought, these pieces, largely reviews, will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to readers unfamiliar with one of the most wide-ranging intellectuals of the last half-century.
Author Bio
George Steiner
George Steiner was Lord Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford University. He is a well-known reviewer for "The New Yorker", the "Times Literary Supplement", and other American and European journals. Steiner is the author of numerous books that have been translated into a dozen languages.
"Steiner...has poured forth millions of words on the fate or art and literature in modern times....[He has] celebrated culture's survival and questioned its value in an age of atrocity and disbelief."
- Lee Siegel
03/15/2009
