The (astonishingly erudite) literary critic George Steiner has died at the age of ninety. From the New York Times obituary:
“I’d love to be remembered as a good teacher of reading,” he told The Paris Review in 1994. Characteristically, he had a specific, lofty notion of reading as a moral calling. It should, he added, “commit us to a vision, should engage our humanity, should make us less capable of passing by.”A related post
George Steiner on reading
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