In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

“Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come. Mr. Steiner’s discussion of the break with the traditional literary past (Jewish, Christian, Greek, and Latin) is illuminating and attractively undogmatic. He writes as a man sharing ideas, and his original notions, though scarcely cheerful, have the bracing effect that first-rate thinking always has.” –New Yorker “In Bluebeard’s Castle is a brief and brillian...

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vhuiec25 февраля 2018 г.
We must keep in sharp focus its hideous novelty or renovation. We must keep vital in ourselves a sense of scandal so overwhelming that it affects every significant aspect of our position in history and society. We have, as Emily Dickinson would have said, to keep the soul terribly surprised.
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vhuiec25 февраля 2018 г.
The mechanism is simple but primordial.
We hate most those who hold out to us a goal, an ideal, a visionary promise which, even though we have stretched our muscles to the utmost, we cannot reach, which slips, again and again, just out of range of our racked fingers-yet, and this is crucial, which remains profoundly desirable, which we cannot reject because we fully acknowledge its supreme value.
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