George Steiner at The New Yorker
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George Steiner
简介
Between 1967 and 1997, George Steiner wrote more than 130 pieces on a great range of topics for The New Yorker, making new books, difficult ideas, and unfamiliar subjects seem compelling not only to intellectuals but to "the common reader." He possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children's games, war-time Britain, Hitler's bunker, and chivalry attract his interest as much as Levi-Strauss, Cellini, Bernhard, Chardin, Mandelstam, Kafka, Cardinal Newman, Verdi, Gogol, Borges, Brecht, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and art historian/spy Anthony Blunt. Steiner makes an ideal guide from the Risorgimento in Italy to the literature of the Gulag, from the history of chess to the enduring importance of George Orwell. Again and again everything Steiner looks at in his New Yorker essays is made to bristle with some genuine prospect of turning out to be freshly thrilling or surprising.
contents
History & politics. "The cleric of treason" : on Anthony Blunt ; "Wien, Wien, nur du allein" : on Webern & Vienna ; "De profundis" : on Solzhenitsyn's gulag ; "God's spies" : on Graham Greene ; "From the House of the Dead" : on Albert Speer ; "De mortuis" : on Aries & new French history -- Writers and writing. "One thousand years of solitude" : on Salvatore Satta ; "Killing time" : on George Orwell's 1984 ; "Black Danube" " on Karl Kraus & Thomas Bernhard ; "B.B." : on Bertolt Brecht ; "Uneasy rider: " on Robert M. Pirsig ; "Rare bird" : on Guy Davenport ; "Dead letters" " on John Barth ; "Tigers in the mirror" : on Jorge Luis Borges ; "Of nuance and scruple" : on Samuel Beckett ; "Under Eastern eyes" : on Alexander Solzhenitsyn & other Russians ; "Cat man" : on Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Thinkers. "The friend of a friend" : on Walter Benjamin & Gershom Scholem ; "Bad Friday" : on Simone Weil ; "The lost garden" : on Claude Lévi-Strauss ; "Short shrift" : on E.M. Cioran ; "Ancient glittering eyes" : on Bertrand Russell ; "A tale of three cities" : on Elias Canetti ; "La morte d'Arthur" : on Arthur Koestler ; "The tongues of man" : on Noam Chomsky -- Life studies. "A death of kings" : on chess ; "Give the word" : on James Murray & the OED ; "An examined life" : on Robert Hutchins & the University of Chicago -- Appendix. All George Steiner's essays in The New Yorker.