A Long Saturday

Resumen del libro

George Steiner is one of the preeminent intellectuals of our time. The Washington Post has declared that no one else 'writing on literature can match him as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing,' while the New York Times says of his works that 'the erudition is almost as extraordinary as the prose: dense, knowing, allusive.' Reading in many languages, celebrating the survival of high culture in the face of modern barbarisms, Steiner probes the ethics of language and literature with unparalleled grace and authority. A Long Saturday offers intimate insight into the questions that have absorbed him throughout his career.

In a stimulating series of conversations, Steiner and journalist Laure Adler discuss a range of topics, including Steiners boyhood in Vienna and Paris, his education at the University of Chicago and Harvard, and his early years in academia. Books are a touchstone throughout, but Steiner and Adlers conversations also range over music, chess, psychoanalysis, the place of Israel in Jewish life, and beyond. Blending thoughts on subjects of broad interest in the humanities'the issue of honoring Richard Wagner and Martin Heidegger in spite of their politics, or Virginia Woolfs awareness of the novel as a multivocal form, for example'with personal reflections on life and family, Steiner demonstrates why he is considered one of todays greatest minds. Revealing and exhilarating, A Long Saturday invites readers to pull up a chair and listen in on a conversation with a master.

Biografía del autor

Laure Adler es escritora, periodista y productora. Aclamada por sus biografías, recibió la Legión de Honor en 2015 por su trayectoria cultural. Es autora de varios libros,entre ellos una celebrada biografía deMarguerite Duras.

Biografía del autor

GEORGE STEINER (París, 1929 - Cambridge, 2020), es una de las voces intelectuales más importantes de nuestra época y uno de los más reconocidos representantes del gran espíritu de la cultura europea. Premio Príncipe de Asturias 2001 de Comunicación y Humanidades, filósofo del lenguaje, crítico literario, ensayista, políglota y defensor de la educación estética y la cultura clásica, ejerció la docencia en varias universidades de Europa y Estados Unidos, entre ellas Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford y Ginebra. Hijo de judíos vieneses, es autor, entre numerosas obras, de Nostalgia del absoluto, Fragmentos, Errata, Presencias reales o El silencio de los libros, todas ellas publicadas en castellano por Siruela.