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George steiner teaches at the university of geneva, switzerland, and at cambridge university, england. After babel george steiner oxford university press. In after babel steiner states to understand is to decipher. Aug 17, 2010 open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading after babel. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Though many jews took great pains to obscure their origins. His multicultural, trilingual background, his career that has seen him hold positions at both the economist and the new yorker, as well as academic chairs at oxford and geneva, his intellectual interests and pursuits, all make for a. His family moved to the united states in 1940 and he was educated at the universities of paris, chicago, harvard, oxford and cambridge.
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