Grammars of Creation

With his well-known elegance of style and intellectual range, George Steiner here explores the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history. In the volume that may fairly be called his magnum opus, Steiner probes deeply into the driving forces of the human spirit, considers our perceptions of Western civilization's lengthening afternoon shadows, and concludes with an eloquent evocation of the endlessness of beginnings.