"The Deeps of the Sea and Other Fiction by George Steiner

"The Deeps of the Sea and Other Fiction by George Steiner

A collection of stories which span intimacy and politics, violence and calm. The settings include the depths of the Pacific and the Amazonian forests, the Poland of the death camps, and Italy after the collapse of Marxism.

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	9780571177646
ISBN 10	0571177646
Titre	"The Deeps of the Sea and Other Fiction
Auteur	George Steiner
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Faber & Faber
Année de publication	1996-01-08
Nombre de pages	496
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