Francis George Steiner,FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath", saying that he is either "often credited with recasting the role of the critic", or a "pretentious namedropper" whose "range comes at the price of inaccuracy" and "complacency".
Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world." English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time." Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them."
"[The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
"To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless."
"Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow."
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past."
"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
Eu não peço desculpa e nem peço perdão Não, não é minha culpa Essa minha obsessão Já não agüento mais Ver o meu coração Como um vermelho balão Rolando e sangrando Chutado pelo chão Psicótico, neurótico, todo errado Só porque eu quero alguém Que fique vinte e quatro horas do meu lado No meu coração eternamente colado No meu coração eternamente colado
‘who we are now’ ... Us ... Where he once stood in the tradition of public intellectuals established by George Steiner, Jonathan Miller and Anthony Burgess, he is now barely one step up from Frank Bough, who enjoyed agreeable holidays with his wife Nesta ... .
... experience more of “sensual, transient reality in which our lives must pass” (in the words of literary critic George Steiner) than it is the business, let alone the ambition of a columnist to impart.
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He explained. 'A sex scene is a very strange thing ... Read More ... ' ... Photographed by Gordon Von Steiner and styled by George Cortina, Vanity Fair's newest Hollywood issue sees the biggest stars of 2025 come together for the annual shoot, three months early.
He explained ... He continued ... When asked about how he feels about his portrayal of the Prince, Josh replied ... Photographed by Gordon Von Steiner and styled by George Cortina, the portfolio features stunning solo portraits and interviews with the stars ... .
Photographed by Gordon Von Steiner and styled by George Cortina, the portfolio features stunning solo portraits and interviews with the stars ... Read More ...Jonathan explained he insisted the director of Wicked, Jon M ... He said ... He's a legend.' ... .
The biggest stars of 2025 have come together for Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue ... Photographed by Gordon Von Steiner and styled by George Cortina, the portfolio features stunning solo portraits and interviews with the stars ... She said ... Homecoming in 2016 ... .
He said ... Read More ... They do ... He said ... Photographed by Gordon Von Steiner and styled by George Cortina, the huge production involved 24 trunks, 50 boxes, 30 rails of clothing, 200 pairs of shoes and four security guards for the expensive jewellery ... .
Mercedes will have a new-look line-up next year and while GeorgeRussell is expected to keep his seat, Guenther Steiner has warned it is anything but a done deal ... .
'But George has got all the interest to do whatever he has to do there to get it out of it, to show that he's the leader of the team for the future ... Teammate George Russell shows a lot more 'interest' in the Silver Arrows projects, says Steiner.
Aiken Standard
18 Nov 2024
Aiken Standard
18 Nov 2024