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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
January 1, 2008
Pages
209
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811217033
ISBN-10
0811217035
Dimensions
1 by 7.50 by 6.25 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$23.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
A Long Saturday: Conversations | On Difficulty | Errata | The Death of Tragedy | Real Presences | After Babel | The Poetry of Thought | George Steiner at The New Yorker | No Passion Spent
A Long Saturday: Conversations | On Difficulty | Errata | The Death of Tragedy | Real Presences | After Babel | The Poetry of Thought | George Steiner at The New Yorker | No Passion Spent
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A forefront literary critic meditates on seven books he had intended to write, explaining that his unwritten works proved too intimate, challenging, or painful to commit to publication and revealing how the stories confronted such themes as aberrant sex, exile, and the humbling limitations of talent.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: By one of the world's foremost literary critics, George Steiner's My Unwritten Books meditates upon seven books he had long had in mind to write, but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and wholly personal.
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 amongâwhen they confrontâthe 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.
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 amongâwhen they confrontâthe 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.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from New Directions (January 1, 2008)
9780811217033 | details & prices | 209 pages | 7.50 × 6.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $23.95
About: A forefront literary critic meditates on seven books he had intended to write, explaining that his unwritten works proved too intimate, challenging, or painful to commit to publication and revealing how the stories confronted such themes as aberrant sex, exile, and the humbling limitations of talent.
About: A forefront literary critic meditates on seven books he had intended to write, explaining that his unwritten works proved too intimate, challenging, or painful to commit to publication and revealing how the stories confronted such themes as aberrant sex, exile, and the humbling limitations of talent.
Paperback
Reprint edition from New Directions (February 24, 2014)
9780811217934 | details & prices | 209 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.52 lbs | List price $16.95
About: In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books that he did not writeSteiner did not write the books because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening.
About: In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books that he did not writeSteiner did not write the books because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening.
from Orion Pub Co (January 8, 2009)
9780753825693 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $16.45
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