My Unwritten Books

Resumen del libro

In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books which he did not write. Because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening. Because the topic brought too much pain. Because its emotional or intellectual challenge proved beyond his capacities.

The actual themes range widely and defy conventional taboos: the torment of the gifted when they live among, when they confront, the very great; the experience of sex in different languages; a love for animals greater than for human beings; the costly privilege of exile; a theology of emptiness.

Yet a unifying perception underlies this diversity. The best we have or can produce is only the tip of the iceberg. Behind every good book, as in a lit shadow, lies the book which remained unwritten, the one that would have failed better.

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.