Frases de George Steiner

Francis George Steiner é um crítico literário, professor na Universidade de Cambridge e Genebra.

✵ 23. Abril 1929 – 3. Fevereiro 2020
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George Steiner Frases famosas

“A história, no sentido humano, é uma rede de linguagem arremessada para trás.”

Extraterritorial: a literatura e a revolução da linguagem. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1990 p. 69

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George Steiner: Frases em inglês

“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”

"The Retreat from the Word," Kenyon Review (Spring 1961).
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.”

Preface.
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
Contexto: We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. To say that he has read them without understanding or that his ear is gross, is cant. In what way does this knowledge bear on literature and society, on the hope, grown almost axiomatic from the time of Plato to that of Matthew Arnold, that culture is a humanizing force, that the energies of spirit are transferable to those of conduct?

“Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.”

Fonte: The Death of Tragedy (1961), Ch. III (p. 104).

“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”

"A Kind of Survivor".
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

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