George Steiner cytaty

Francis George Steiner – amerykański krytyk literacki, eseista, filozof, nowelista, tłumacz i nauczyciel.

Studiował na uniwersytetach w Paryżu , Chicago, Harvardzie i Oxfordzie. Napisał 15 książek, w tym także powieści, przetłumaczonych na kilkanaście języków . Pisał na temat związków pomiędzy językiem, literaturą i społeczeństwem oraz o Holocauście. Poliglota i polihistor. Często uważa się, że zdefiniował na nowo rolę krytyka. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Kwiecień 1929 – 3. Luty 2020
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George Steiner: Cytaty po angielsku

“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”

"The Retreat from the Word," Kenyon Review (Spring 1961).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

“We know now 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.”

Preface.
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
Kontekst: We come after. We know now 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. To say that he has read them without understanding or that his ear is gross, is cant. In what way does this knowledge bear on literature and society, on the hope, grown almost axiomatic from the time of Plato to that of Matthew Arnold, that culture is a humanizing force, that the energies of spirit are transferable to those of conduct?

“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Źródło: The Death of Tragedy (1961), Ch. III (p. 104).

“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”

"A Kind of Survivor".
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)