This author of Antigones and Tolstoy or Dostoevsky expanded his introduction to The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation into a full book-length study arguing that all human communication, within or across languages, is a form of translation.
This author wrote an essay linking the deaths of Jesus and Socrates through a common bird that figures in the last moments of each man. This author envisioned a "secondary city," where all external discourse about art and culture is forbidden, to suggest that the best art criticism is to be found in other works of art. This author claimed that philosophical texts such as Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind and Kierkegaard's Either/Or must be interpreted in relation to a certain Greek play, whose protagonist he calls the "Antitheos" for (*) her just crime against Creon. This critic's inaugural book, which he pointedly called "An Essay in the Old Criticism," examines the differences between two giants of Russian literature. This author of Antigones and Tolstoy or Dostoevsky expanded his introduction to The Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation into a full book-length study arguing that all human communication, within or across languages, is a form of translation. For 10 points, name this French-born Jewish-American literary critic who wrote After Babel.
This author wrote an essay linking the deaths of Jesus and Socrates through a common bird that figures in the last moments of each man.
George Steiner [or Francis George Steiner]