Real Presences

Name: Real Presences
Author: George Steiner

by George Steiner

Steiner's inquiry into the nature of presence and how art achieves transcendence beyond language

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George Steiner

French-American literary critic and polymath whose After Babel examined the fundamental problem of translation as a metaphor for human understanding. Language and Silence and Real Presences are his most celebrated essays. He wrote with passionate belief in the sacred importance of high culture.

More by George Steiner

After BabelEssays on language as barrier and bridge after Babel, examining translation and multilingual consciousness
Language and SilenceEssays on the silence of barbarism and the fragility of culture after the Holocaust
The Death of TragedySteiner's argument that tragedy ceased to be possible after the Enlightenment and modern revolutions
In Bluebeard's CastleSteiner's essays exploring Western intellectual tradition through essays on Dante, Dostoevsky, and totalitarianism