In the original edition, steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. George steiner on language and languages the new york times. How does this world of translation work, what have men shouted or whispered to each other across the bewildering freedom of the rubble at babel instead what steiner has given us is a dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itselflanguage as poetry, as fable, as. The objective of after babel is clearly delineated in the prefaceprefaces, and the six chapters that comprise it are well organized. George steiners monograph after babel is a living plea for translation.
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