George Steiner

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April 23, 1929 in Paris, France

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Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Poetry

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Dr. Francis George Steiner is an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He has written for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lives in Cambridge, England, with his wife, historian Zara Shakow Steiner.

In 1950 he earned an M.A. from Harvard University, where he won the Bell Prize in American Literature, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University (Balliol College) on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955. He was then a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for two years. He became a founding fellow of Churchill College at the University of...more

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Books by George Steiner

Average rating: 4.00 · 1,297 ratings · 164 reviews · 62 distinct works

	After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation 4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Real Presences 4.06 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. 3.72 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	My rating:
	In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture 4.21 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman 3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism 4.12 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1959 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Errata: An Examined Life 4.00 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Grammars of Creation 4.14 avg rating — 50 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Martin Heidegger 4.00 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Death of Tragedy 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1961 — 7 editions	My rating:

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“Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity”
― George Steiner

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“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
― George Steiner

tags: language , linguistics , memory , philosophy , world

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“the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.”
― George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters

tags: inspirational , teaching

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