Creator Bio
George Steiner
1929–2020
A cultural and literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher, Paris-born George Steiner became an American citizen. He later became professor of comparative literature at Geneva and Cambridge universities. His writings address issues related to translation, the nature of language and literature, and culture.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Kind of Survivor
For Elie Wiesel
Not literally. Due to my father’s foresight (he had shown it when leaving Vienna in 1924), I came to America in January 1940, during the phony war. We left France, where I was born and…
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Our Homeland, the Text
Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…