George Steiner

Also known as Francis George Steiner

American writer (1928–2020)

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Born: 23 April 1929
Died: 3 February 2020
Works: 255

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Éloge de la transmission
The dissent from reason
Platon et les poetès
Language and silence
The portage to San Cristobal of AḤ

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1888-05-10
Active to: 1971-12-28

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Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".

To his admirers, Steiner is "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".