Errata - An examined life

by George Steiner (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  Steiner's brilliant and elegant new book draws on episodes from his life, to explore the central themes and ideas of his thinking and writing over the course of much of our troubled century. An exploration of the ideas of the life of a major and brilliant thinker, the closest we will get to an autobiography.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.97

  This is very much not an academic book, though it is, as one would expect, throughout infomed by Steiner's vast and polyglot reading, from the classics through to contemporary science, across fiction, poetry, theology and philosophy It is rather in a genre of its own, littered with entertaining anecdotes, and the closest we will get to an autobiography.