George Steiner was an influential Franco-American philosopher, literary critic, and writer born in Paris in 1929.
Read biographyLiterary criticism often stems from a deficit of love.
We have no more beginnings.
Stereotypes are tired truths.
Inhumanity is perennial.
Looking back, the critic sees the shadow of a eunuch. Who would be a critic if they could be a writer?
What is not named does not exist.