Sisterliness
Jonathan Barnes
- Antigones by George Steiner
Oxford, 326 pp, £15.00, June 1984, ISBN 0 19 812665 4
Who else would refer in the space of a hundred pages to a newly discovered papyrus of Stesichorus, a Zurich medical dissertation on the fear of being buried alive, and four 19th-century Danish followers of Hegel? George Steiner’s erudition is as exuberant as ever. The latest book, like its predecessors, teems with esoteric references, recondite allusions and jackdaw juxtapositions. It resounds with the clangour of dropping names.
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