El examen de una vida
Errata, George Steiner's most personal book, is an illuminating and fascinating analysis of his own life and his love of literature and music.
Always incisive, and often provocative, George Steiner's views are intensely marked in this book by his own experiences: his trilingual training - English, French and German -, the education he received from his father, his time at the University of Chicago in the 1940s, his own sense of Judaism, his writings, and his teaching. Steiner, a thinker who has never avoided the "big questions", analyzes here the genius of Homer, Shakespeare or Racine, translation and multilingualism, the role of teachers who have inspired his professional life or the relationship between culture and democracy, to end with a surprising analysis of the meaning of science and reason, of atheism and religion.
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