| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780811217040 | | Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation | | Publish Date: 1/30/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208068595 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68026 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 1.25T | | Pages: 304 |
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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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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.
| Praise| "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 |
| 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. |
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