Disenchantment: George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz

by Catherine D. Chatterley

Book Overview

George Steiner has enjoyed international acclaim as a distinguished cultural critic for many years. The son of central European Jews, he was born in France, fled from the Nazis to New York in 1940, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944. Through his many books, voluminous literary criticism, and book review articles published in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian, Steiner has played a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609604
• ISBN13: 9780815609605
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.6"