George Steiner is one of the best-known literary critics in the English-speaking world today-perhaps because the term literary critic is a bit small for him. Like Susan Sontag, Steiner has followed a ...
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A polyglot intellectual who has published nonfiction on subjects as diverse as ancient Greek literature, the Russian novel, modernist poetry, aesthetics, philosophy, linguistics, chess, and translatio...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
In Mr. George Steiner's words, it is necessary in approaching [Tolstoy and Dostoevsky] to think "of literature as existing not in isolati...
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Grigson
[Steiner] is a very clever man (in which he reminds me of one very clever man in a Cornish town, whose story can wait for a paragraph or two). He is prodigiously in...
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Critical Essay by Eliseo Vivas
Mr. Steiner's "T. S. Eliot Lectures" for 1971 [published as In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture] return us...
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Critical Essay by Richard Freedman
[In Extraterritorial] Steiner pursues the trail he blazed with Language and Silence: an investigation into the very roots of communication; into how the special pat...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Culler
In Language and Silence and In Bluebeard's Castle Dr Steiner spoke of the 'retreat from the word', the distrust of language that has made us inc...
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Critical Essay by Raymond Oliver
For some years now, George Steiner has been writing books and essays that deal with vast cultural problems on the one hand and subtleties of literary texture on the o...
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Critical Essay by James Fenton
[Professor Steiner's most recent publications are On Difficulty and Heidegger. We do not yet know what his] next book will be 'about', but we may g...
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Critical Essay by P. F. Strawson
[Martin Heidegger], George Steiner's treatment of this over-and underestimated figure, is exemplary, or very nearly so. Only very nearly so, because he too sha...
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Critical Essay by David H. Stewart
The recent preoccupation of all thoughtful practitioners of the humanities with language is [Steiner's] preoccupation. Semantics, semiotics, psycho-linguisti...
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Critical Essay by Donat O'donnell [pseudonym of Conor Cruise O'brien]
The area covered by Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is vast; Mr. Steiner's arguments are numerous, close in themselves...
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Critical Essay by Richard Gilman
[Near the end of The Death of Tragedy] George Steiner expresses a credo that might more serviceably have appeared at the beginning. "I believe that literary cr...
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Critical Essay by John Gross
Tragedy is plentiful in life but scarce in literature; since the 17th century the tragic drama has been in bad shape, and George Steiner now pronounces life to be extinct...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
In The Death of Tragedy, Mr. Steiner's thesis is that tragedy, after its glorious heyday in Greece, and again, though in quite different trappings, in Elizabethan ...
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Critical Essay by Theodore Solotaroff
If you are interested in contemporary literature and are looking for intelligent direction, then [Language and Silence, a] collection of George Steiner's ...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[Steiner's themes in Language and Silence] are established in the first two sections, which fill nearly 200 pages and might really have been use...
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Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
There is so much that is admirable in George Steiner's attitudes [in Language and Silence], so much in both his desiderations and his abominations to agree with...
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Critical Essay by Nicolas Krasso
Language and Silence is George Steiner's collection of those articles he published between 1958 and 1966. It deals with a great many cultural events and preocc...
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Recently I asked a 15-year-old boy what music he listened to. His answer: "No one you ever heard of." A perfect answer. Because what every fan needs, what every person should have, is music ...
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George Steiner
Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
My Punk Self
