The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner

The Death of Tragedy by George Steiner

This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . . . The book is bound to start controversy. . . . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him prove that the vision still lives and that words can still enlighten and reveal.--R.B. Sewall, New York Times Book Review

A remarkable achievement. . . . The knowledge is marshalled here with the skill and authority of a great general, and from it a large strategic argument emerges with clarity and force. . . . A brilliantly thoughtful and eloquent book which deserves to be read with the greatest attention and respect.--Philip Toynbee, The Observer

As brilliant, thorough, and concerned a contemplation of the nature of dramatic art as has appeared in many years.--Richard Gilman, Commonweal

A rich and illuminating study, full of intelligence and sensibility.--Times Literary Supplement (London)

His merits are shining and full of the capacity to give both delight and illumination. . . . His style is throughout vigorous, sensitive, and altogether worthy of its subject.--Harold Hobson, Christian Science Monitor

Immensely useful and a book] to be reckoned with by everyone working in this field.--Raymond Williams, The Guardian

Born in Paris in 1929, George Steiner was educated in France, the USA and Britain. After a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol, he joined the editorial staff of The Economist in 1952. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. There he wrote Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky (1960) and began The Death of Tragedy (1961). In 1964 he published Anno Domini, a book of three novellas dealing with the aftermath of the Second World War. Language and Silence was published in 1967. His other work includes Proofs and Three Parables, which Faber published in 1992.George Steiner lives in Cambridge, where he has been Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College since 1969. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He has been awarded the Commandeur dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1994 he became the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9780571056583
ISBN 10	057105658X
Title	The Death of Tragedy
Author	George Steiner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	1974-12-05
Number of pages	240
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