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Errata: An Examined Life
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780300080957
ISBN: 0300080956
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 214
Publication Date: October 11, 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Editorial Review:
George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, here relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the central ideas and themes of his work. Brilliant and witty, his memoir reveals Steiner`s thoughts on the meaning of the western tradition and its philosophic and religious premises.
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Rating:  - Dense, Typically Provocative, Worthwhile
Lovers of intellectual autobiography, pounce. True examples of this genre are scarce, certainly among living writers. And Steiner's insistence on concision assures that this slim volume won't waste your time. Typically, even when a theory or two seems wrong (as with his on the underpinnings of anti-Semitism), it can test your own, or stimulate you to more plausible ideas not otherwise occasioned.
The relative dearth of this genre among professions other than the writer's own stuffy vocation ... Read More
Rating: - Pundit worries
Errata is a collection of "articles", offering meditations on cultural history, art, language, antisemitism, the fate of religion in our age - all more or less linked to a limited number of autobiographical anecdotes. As an intellectual biography it is not really satisfying, because the "articles" differ in tone and in the way intellectual matter gets linked to personal memories. The section on "silence", for instance, is very impressionistic, whereas the (more interesting) part on teachers is a true gallery ... Read More
Rating: - At the top of western culture
To me, Erata is a display of the best qualities of Western culture. Steiner is as knowledgable in European cultural Classic as there is. He is in love with European classical music, with European literature - ancient and new, with philosophy, poetry and more. He loves Western cultural achievements without showing any disrespect for Asian, African or other non-European cultures. Of these he has some superficial knowledge - but he does not pretend otherwise.
Steiner's attempts to define in words the importance ... Read More
Rating:  - Errata: the unexamined manuscript
This book is a series of autobiographical essays, by the ultra-conservative American journalist George Steiner (who hates America so much that he pretends to be English). You are supposed to be amazed, impressed, overawed by the author's brilliant intellect, all the people he has met, and his privileged life.
But looking beneath his thick prose (given, George Steiner has just about the thickest prose around, so reading and understanding what he is saying is not the easist thing in the world) the picture he gives ... Read More
Rating: - a profound, passionate and humane thinker
First off, I should mention that I'm new to the work of George Steiner and this review will perhaps be most helpful to other newcomers. Having spent the better part of the past 20 years immersing myself in music ( of varying types ) I've recently found myself being drawn to the world of literature. Although by no means ignorant of the basic literary "classics" ( Bible, Homer, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, etc ), I make these prefatory comments only to point out that I am certainly NOT an exceptionally well ... Read More
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