ABSTRACT
GEORGE STEINER (B. 1929) IS A French-born scholar and translator of Jewish-Austrian decent, and naturalized American citizen, who has held positions at the universities of Geneva, Cambridge and Oxford and at Harvard University. His publications cover an extraordinarily wide range of topics and authorships from classical to modern literature. Problems of metaphysics, translation and the aftermath of the Holocaust are among the central issues of his work. A pessimist about changes in culture and the loss of literacy in its widest sense, Steiner has repeatedly made the case for the expressions and experiences which only art and literature can bring about.
