Steiner George. Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

Open Road, n.d. — 227 p."When Steiner deals with transactions between languages...as in discussion of various English versions of the Bible or Robert Lowell`s translation of Racine, we see a keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves."-Robert Gorham Davis, New York Times Book Review "An extraordinarily sharp, brilliant, and thoughtful discussion of the strange conditions into which modern writing has worked itself...Few, very few writers today have as much that is worthwhile to say on today`s writing as does the author."-Joseph G. Harrison, Christian Science Monitor "Whoever has valued and needed this book for its insights into some one particular matter...will upon rereading discover the astounding breadth of attention in [it]: from Homer to Thomas Mann, from Marshall McLuhan to The Warsaw Diary of Chaim Kaplan. In each of these essays, a single sentence, and often more than one, can endlessly provoke and illuminate thought."-John Felstiner How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.Humane Literacy
Humane Literacy (1963)
The Retreat from the Word (1961)
Silence and the Poet (1966)
To Civilize Our Gentlemen (1965)
Night Words (1965)
The Pythagorean Genre (1965)
Language out of Darkness
The Hollow Miracle (1959)
A Note on Günter Grass (1964)
K (1963)
Schoenberg’s Moses and Aaron (1965)
A Kind of Survivor (1965)
Postscript (1966)
Classics
Homer and the Scholars (1962)
The Book (1961)
Shakespeare — Four Hundredth (1964)
Two Translations (1961)
Masters
F. R. Leavis (1962)
Orpheus with His Myths: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1965)
On Reading Marshall McLuhan (1963)
Fictions and the Present
Mérimée (1963)
Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull (1963)
Lawrence Durrell and the Baroque Novel (1960)
Building a Monument (1964)
“Dying Is an Art” (1965)
Marxism and Literature
Marxism and the Literary Critic (1958)
Georg Lukács and His Devil’s Pact (1960)
An Aesthetic Manifesto (1964)
Out of Central Europe (1964)
The Writer and Communism (1961)
Trotsky and the Tragic Imagination (1966)
Literature and Post-History (1965)