No Passion Spent

No Passion Spent Essays 1978-1995

In a remarkable book, one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era concerns himself with language and its relation to literature and religion. Written during a period when the art of reading and the status of a text have been threatened by literary movements that question their validity and by computer technology, Steiner's essays affirm the primacy of reading in the classical sense.
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Seth Kalback@skalback
4 stars
Jan 18, 2023