George Steiner
George Steiner · Arts & Literature
Literary critic and essayist ('After Babel')
1929, Paris, France — 2020, Cambridge, England
France · United States · United Kingdom
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George Steiner was a Franco-American literary critic, essayist and scholar of comparative literature, celebrated for After Babel, a landmark study of language and translation, and for essays linking literature, philosophy and the Holocaust. He taught at institutions including Geneva, Cambridge and Oxford. Born to Viennese Jewish parents, he was Jewish.
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Literary critic and essayist ('After Babel')
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