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| Original Title: | No Passion Spent: Essays |
| ISBN: | 9727087345 (ISBN13: 9789727087341) |
| Edition Language: | Portuguese |
| Literary Awards: | Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction (1997) |
George Steiner
Paperback | Pages: 412 pages Rating: 4.04 | 69 Users | 11 Reviews
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| Title | : | Paixão Intacta |
| Author | : | George Steiner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 412 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Relógio de Água (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Criticism. Writing. Essays. Literary Criticism |
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George Steiner aborda neste livro questões sobre a linguagem, a literatura e a religião. Abrange uma grande variedade de assuntos e de temas, desde Homero, Kafka, Kierkegaard e Simone Weil até aos escritos judaicos, à tradição religiosa, à divisão original entre cristãos e judeus, aos efeitos do Holocausto e às relações entre a cultura europeia e norte-americana. Num momento em que a importância do texto se encontra ameaçada,Steiner reitera a importância vital da leitura, no seu sentido original.
«Uma prosa brilhante e esclarecedora.» — Alain de Botton, Independent on Sunday
«Na busca do sentido mais profundo de Homero, da Bíblia, de Shakespeare e de Kafka, bem como da interacção problemática entre o Judaísmo, o Classicismo e o Cristianismo, Steiner expõe com uma erudição ecléctica e superior […]» — Kirkus Reviews
«Todos os comentários de Steiner estão dominados pelo seu fascínio pela crença antiga de que, na profecia, há palavras, textos e imagens que dialogam directamente com a essência da vida […]
A perspectiva de Steiner acerca da literatura ocidental faz dele […] uma voz poderosa, única e insubstituível.» — Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
«Perspicaz, provocador e pioneiro.» — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World
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Ratings: 4.04 From 69 Users | 11 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books Paixão Intacta
Passions impunies by George SteinerGeorge Steiner's essays are arduous and demanding, but the reward they offer is more than commensurate with the effort required. Every essay in No Passion Spent offers not only ample matter for reflection and incentive to new learning, but also gem-like sentences that ring in the memory like lines from the best poems. The irreducibility of language, the mystery of words, and the near impossibility of faithful and final translation are a repeated focus in these essays. He laments the vitiation
Steiner teeters between pessimistic socialist and fascism. His atheistic readings of texts is rooted in linguistics and theology, which make for enlightening scholarship, but his opinions are also presented as scholarly when often times they veer into the fantastical. That's not to say he's not a delightful read; he is. When he's *really* on his game, he's one of the most engaging philologists and grammatologists one could hope to read. His linguistic studies challenge and also build on
See my review of Levinas...pour over ice and serve.
The reflections on Chardin's 'philosophe listant' are why I could read him all day.
See also: George A. Steiner, author on Management and Planning.Dr. Francis George Steiner is an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He has written for The New Yorker for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lives in Cambridge, England,
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