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In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

George Steiner
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“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times and the conceivable culture of times to come.  Mr. Steiner’s discussion of the break with the traditional literary past is illuminating and attractively undogmatic.  He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has.” –New Yorker
“In Bluebeard’s Castle is a brief and brilliant book.  An intellectual tour de force, it is also a book that should generate a profound excitement and promote a profound unease…like the great culturalists of the past.  Steiner uses a dense and plural learning to assess his topic: his book has the outstanding quality of being not simply a reflection on culture, but an embodiment of certain contemporary resources within it.  The result is one of the most important books I have read for a very long time.”—New Society
Language
English
Pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
September 10, 1974
ISBN
0300017103
ISBN 13
9780300017106

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

George Steiner
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times and the conceivable culture of times to come.  Mr. Steiner’s discussion of the break with the traditional literary past is illuminating and attractively undogmatic.  He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has.” –New Yorker
“In Bluebeard’s Castle is a brief and brilliant book.  An intellectual tour de force, it is also a book that should generate a profound excitement and promote a profound unease…like the great culturalists of the past.  Steiner uses a dense and plural learning to assess his topic: his book has the outstanding quality of being not simply a reflection on culture, but an embodiment of certain contemporary resources within it.  The result is one of the most important books I have read for a very long time.”—New Society
Language
English
Pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
September 10, 1974
ISBN
0300017103
ISBN 13
9780300017106

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