Volume 9, Number 6 · October 12, 1967
Speak Up!
By D.J. Enright
Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman
by George Steiner
Atheneum, 426 pp., $8.00
There is so much that is admirable in George Steiner's attitudes, so much in both his desiderations and his abominations to agree with, that his faults are all the more distressing. Or rather his one fault: a histrionic habit, an overheated tone, a melodramatization of what (God knows) is often dramatic enough, a proclivity to fly to extreme positions. The effect is to antagonize the reader on the brink of assent.
Review, 2153 words
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