Studies in the Novel, December 22nd, 2002
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 344 pp. $29.95. In Grammars of Creation, George Steiner delivers an eloquent eulogy on the death of art and meaning as they have been known in the West. Part meditation, part lament, the book suggests a multiplicity of connections and cites numerous examples of art, literature, and thought from pre-history to the present. A glance at the index reveals the formidable range and depth of Steiner's erudition: from Abelard to Zola, Borges to Wittgenstein, Parmenides to Proust The array of topics and issues Steiner considers is equally impressive: an inquiry ...
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