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Original Title:	No Passion Spent: Essays
ISBN:	9727087345 (ISBN13: 9789727087341)
Edition Language:	Portuguese
Literary Awards:	Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction (1997)

Paixão Intacta Paperback | Pages: 412 pages

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George Steiner aborda neste livro questões sobre a linguagem, a literatura e a religião. Abrange uma grande variedade de assuntos e de temas, desde Homero, Kafka, Kierkegaard e Simone Weil até aos escritos judaicos, à tradição religiosa, à divisão original entre cristãos e judeus, aos efeitos do Holocausto e às relações entre a cultura europeia e norte-americana. Num momento em que a importância do texto se encontra ameaçada,
Steiner reitera a importância vital da leitura, no seu sentido original.

«Uma prosa brilhante e esclarecedora.» — Alain de Botton, Independent on Sunday

«Na busca do sentido mais profundo de Homero, da Bíblia, de Shakespeare e de Kafka, bem como da interacção problemática entre o Judaísmo, o Classicismo e o Cristianismo, Steiner expõe com uma erudição ecléctica e superior […]» — Kirkus Reviews

«Todos os comentários de Steiner estão dominados pelo seu fascínio pela crença antiga de que, na profecia, há palavras, textos e imagens que dialogam directamente com a essência da vida […]
A perspectiva de Steiner acerca da literatura ocidental faz dele […] uma voz poderosa, única e insubstituível.» — Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle

«Perspicaz, provocador e pioneiro.» — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

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Title	:	Paixão Intacta
Author	:	George Steiner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 412 pages
Published	:	2003 by Relógio de Água (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Criticism. Writing. Essays. Literary Criticism

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No es un libro de lectura rápida. Sería inmerecido y mezquino entregar a Steiner los residuos del tiempo que sentimos propio cuando él es tan generoso y nos brinda siglos de escritura, filosofía y espíritu, aunque a veces sean regalos dolosos. Por sobre todo, Steiner es un lector enamorado de los libros y de la vida del espíritu. Su imaginación interpretativa captura de inmediato nuestra propia inteligencia y nos libera de la comodidad con que olvidamos aquello que creemos recordar tan bien, los

Destinato ad esperti del settore o studiosi di letteratura, teatro e simili; troppo cerebrale per me. Da semplice amante della buona lettura ho adorato il primo saggio.

Steiner teeters between pessimistic socialist and fascism. His atheistic readings of texts is rooted in linguistics and theology, which make for enlightening scholarship, but his opinions are also presented as scholarly when often times they veer into the fantastical. That's not to say he's not a delightful read; he is. When he's *really* on his game, he's one of the most engaging philologists and grammatologists one could hope to read. His linguistic studies challenge and also build on

George Steiner is a serious guy. So serious that, when first encountering his essays, the reader of say "Harpers" or "Vanity Fair" will be taken aback with the realization that what he or she had been consuming up to that reading point were mental potato chips. In his 1996 collection of essays, No Passion Spent, Steiner covers (with great erudition) an incredible range of subjects: Homer, the Hebrew Bible, Simone Weil, Socrates, Christ, the Holocaust, Kafka, Comparative Literature, etc. In all

The first essays I read from Steiner. And immediately a favorite. This is where hope is forged, in works like this, that knowledge both the beauty and the horror and do not settle for anything less than finding purpose and meaning.

See my review of Levinas...pour over ice and serve.

George Steiner's essays are arduous and demanding, but the reward they offer is more than commensurate with the effort required. Every essay in No Passion Spent offers not only ample matter for reflection and incentive to new learning, but also gem-like sentences that ring in the memory like lines from the best poems. The irreducibility of language, the mystery of words, and the near impossibility of faithful and final translation are a repeated focus in these essays. He laments the vitiation