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George Steiner (23 April 1929 – 3 February 2020) was an Austrian male author and film composer. He is associated with Austrian and European genres. His bibliography includes works such as *Éloge de la transmission*, *The dissent from reason*, *Platon et les poetès*, *Language and silence*, and *The portage to San Cristobal of AḤ*. He had two children.
Steiner’s writings have been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is the subject of quotes regarding language and culture, including the statement that “Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 23 April 1929
- Died
- 3 February 2020
- Works
- 255
Top works
- Éloge de la transmission
- The dissent from reason
- Platon et les poetès
- Language and silence
- The portage to San Cristobal of AḤ
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Austria
- Active from
- 1888-05-10
- Active to
- 1971-12-28
Discography
- Marjorie Morningstar1958
- Sound Track Music From The Warner Bros. Picture "Rome Adventure" And Other Neapolitan Favorites1962
- A Summer Place & Helen of Troy1974
- Rózsa: The King's Thief / Young: Scaramouche / Korngold: Captain Blood / Steiner: The Three Musketeers1995
- At the Movies1996
- The Flame And The Arrow1998
- Pursued (Original Motion Picture Score)2000
- Dodge City And The Oklahoma Kid2001
- Gone With the Wind - The Essential Max Steiner Film Music Collection2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 42
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,955x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,650x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,912x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,669x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,207x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we do not quite understand, the man of genius casts light. Instinctively, we flinch from this light. We assure ourselves that genius must pay a terrible price. Often history bears us out: the creator, the supreme artist, the master of politics carries the scars of his greatness.”
- “The age of the book is almost gone.”
- “There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
- “We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.”
- “Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”
- “Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Francis George Steiner , ( 1929-04-23 ) April 23, 1929, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
- Died
- February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03) (aged 90), Cambridge , England
- Occupation
- Author essayist literary critic professor
- Education
- University of Chicago ( BA ), Harvard University ( MA ), Balliol College, Oxford ( DPhil )
- Period
- 1960–2014
- Genre
- History, literature, literary fiction
- Notable works
- After Babel (1975)
- Notable awards
- Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
- Spouse
- Zara Shakow ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
To his admirers, Steiner is "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time". Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them".
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