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100 1 $aSteiner, George,$d1929-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79106189
245 10 $aGeorge Steiner at the New Yorker /$cedited, and with an introduction, by Robert Boyers.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Directions Pub. Corp.,$c2009.
300 $a344 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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505 00 $tIntroduction /$rRobert Boyers -- $gI.$tHistory & Politics -- $t"The Cleric of Treason" (on Anthony Blunt) -- $t"Wien, Wien, Nur du Allein" (on Webern & Vienna) -- $t"De Profundis" (on Solzhenitsyn's Gulag) -- $t"Gods Spies" (on Graham Greene) -- $t"From The House of the Dead" (on Albert Speer) -- $t"De Mortuis" (on Aries & New French History) -- $gII.$tWriters and Writing -- $t"One Thousand Years of Solitude" (on Salvatore Satta) -- $t"Killing Time" (on George Orwell's 1984) -- $t"Black Danube" (on Karl Kraus & Thomas Bernhard) -- $t"B. B." (on Bertolt Brecht) -- $t"Uneasy Rider" (on Robert M. Pirsig) -- $t"Rare Bird" (on Guy Davenport) -- $t"Dead Letters" (on John Barth) -- $t"Tigers in the Mirror" (on Jorge Luis Borges) -- $t"Of Nuance and Scruple" (on Samuel Beckett) -- $t"Under Eastern Eyes" (on Alexander Solzhenitsyn & Other Russians) -- $t"Cat Man" (on Louis-Ferdinand Celine) -- $gIII.$tThinkers -- $t"The Friend of a Friend" (on Walter Benjamin & Gershom Scholem) -- $t"Bad Friday" (on Simone Weil) -- $t"The Lost Garden" (on Claude Levi-Strauss) -- $t"Short Shrift" (on E. M. Cioron) -- $t"Ancient Glittering Eyes" (on Bertrand Russell) -- $t"A Tale of Three Cities" (on Elias Canetti) -- $t"La Morte D'Arthur" (on Arthur Koestler) -- $t"The Tongues of Man" (on Noam Chomsky) -- $gIV.$tLife Studies -- $t"A Death of Kings" (on Chess) -- $t"Give The Word" (on James Murray & The OED) -- $t"An Examined life" (on Robert Hutchins & The University of Chicago) -- $gAppendix.$tAll George Steiner's Essays in The New Yorker.
500 $aEssays.
500 $a"New Directions paperback original (NDP1129)"--T.p. verso.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
520 1 $a"George Steiner at The New Yorker collects fifty-three of his fascinating and wide-ranging essays from the more than one hundred and thirty he has contributed to the magazine. Steiner possesses a famously dazzling mind: paganism, the Dutch Renaissance, children's games, wartime Britain, and chivalry attract his interest as much as Levi-Strauss, Bernhard, Kafka, Beckett, 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 Borges. Again and again in his New Yorker essays everything Steiner looks at is made to bristle with possibility, with the genuine prospect of becoming fresh and thrilling."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish essays$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043359
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700 1 $aBoyers, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80060886
852 00 $bglx$hPR6069.T417$iG46 2009