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George Steiner: A Reader, Penguin, 1984; A Reading Against Shakespeare, University of Glasgow, 1986; Treblinka, 1986; Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?, Faber and Faber, 1989; Proofs and Three Parables, Faber and Faber, 1992; What is Comparative Literature?, Clarendon Press, 1995—an inaugural lecture before the University of Oxford, UK on October 11, 1994; Homer in English.
George Steiner has 109 books on Goodreads with 34383 ratings. George Steiner’s most popular book is After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation.
Steiner, like Boerne (1786-1837), is a Jew who grew up in the fold of German culture and became a leading European intellectual. Boerne, like Heinrich Heine and Gustav Mahler, converted to Christianity in the 19th century, with the aspiration of integrating into the European cultural elite. Steiner has no need to take that step. His international success has not alienated him from his Judaism.
This mixture of facetiousness and erudition, intelligence and kindness is typical of George Steiner. Born in Paris in 1929 to a Viennese and Czech parents, who foresaw the horrors of Nazism, at an early age the future polymath and polyglot was encouraged to decipher Homer and Cicero by his father, a Jewish intellectual with a passion for art and music, who wanted to awaken his son’s interior.
George Steiner is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and honorary doctorates.
George Steiner (90) one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. With his erudition and the lessons he drew from his Jewish roots and escape from the Holocaust, Steiner, a native of Paris whose family fled to the US in 1940, enjoyed a rich life of the mind. He wrote hundreds of essays, poems, book-length works, and a novella, The Portage of San Cristobal A. H., which enraged some readers.
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