Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

Edité par Atheneum, New York, 1967

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[nice tight clean copy, minimal shelfwear, the faintest bit of age-toning to edges of text block; jacket has a tiny closed tear at top of front panel, another small tear at top of front flapfold, a bit of dog-earing at top of spine, a handful of small scrape marks on the spine, short diagonal crease at top corner of rear flap]. "In every sense a wide-ranging book, [this collection] touches on such diverse themes as the tragic role of Trotsky and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, on the art of Homer and the meaning of Kafka. But underlying its wide scope is the ideal of 'Humane Literacy' -- the belief that the inhuman character of recent history and the erosions of literacy in our present culture have put in question our whole humanistic tradition. If the same man can read Goethe at night and proceed to his job in a concentration camp in the morning, what then of culture? Because it asks this question in many different ways, George Steiner's profoundly eloquest and disturbing book is an act of heart as much as of mind." The 31 pieces in the book date from 1958 through 1966, and include a number of previously unpublished essays, as well as better-known pieces such as "The Hollow Miracle," about the impact of Nazism on the German language, "The Retreat from the Word," and "A Kind of Survivor." Some of the other topics discussed are: pornography; Shakespeare; F.R. Leavis; Claude Levi-Strauss; Marshall McLuhan; Gunter Grass; Thomas Mann; Lawrence Durrell.…

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Titre
Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman
Auteur
Steiner, George
Éditeur
Atheneum, New York
Année de publication
1967
État de l'article
Near Fine
Jaquette
Very Good+ dj
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
3rd printing.

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