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'wonderfully compelling... these chapters also read as a mixture of fiction and scholarship'
Review
'wonderfully compelling... these chapters also read as a mixture of fiction and scholarship' (Bryan Cheyette THE INDEPENDENT )
"ardent for the joyfulness of learning.. fierce for the personal significance of knowledge" (THES )
"Anyone familiar with the erudite George Steiner will know that anything he writes on literature, philosophy or culture is worth reading" (Jonathan Gibbs METRO )
"his failures, as he plummets from this dizzy height, are more grandly vertiginous than the modest successes of others" (Peter Conrad OBSERVER )
"the ability to acknowledge and describe greatness in others is one of Steiner's most attractive gifts" (Peter Washington LITERARY REVIEW )
"For those of us who can remember exactly where we were when we first read his greatest work, it is an extraordinary moment, a sense of an ending." (David Herman JEWISH CHRONICLE )
"fascinating" (Mark Bostridge INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
"The fact that they have not been written is an unimportant oversight, a pardonable excess of modesty in such a joyful enterprise" (Alberto Manguel The Spectator )
"This is all richly argued, meditative and yields intellectual nourishment and prompts admiration." (Robert Giddings Tribune )
"scintillating, seductive" (David Martin TLS )
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