"Une réflexion philosophique sur les mutations artistiques, culturelles et spirituelles de la fin du XXe siècle."
""A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." -Financial TimesEarly in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature-central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however, art has shown a tendency to linger on endings-on sundown instead of sunrise. Asserting that every use of the future tense of the verb "to be" is a negation of mortality, Steiner draws on everything fr."@en
"Cultuurfilosofisch essay over de sleutelrol van de creativiteit in de voortgang van de westerse beschaving."

"Grammars of creation"@en
"Grammars of creation"
"Gramàtiques de la creació : originat a les Gifford Lectures del 1990"@ca
"Gramàtiques de la creació : originat a les Gifford Lectures del 1990"
"Gramatyki tworzenia : na podstawie wygłoszonych w roku 1990 wykładów imienia Gifforda"@pl
"Gramàtiques de la creació"
"Grammars of creation : originating in the Gifford Lecures for 1990"
"Grammatica van de schepping"
"Gramaticas de la creacion"@es
"Grammatiche della creazione : [una serrata indagine sul mistero della creatività, un'eloquente e drammatica diagnosi del nostro presente]"
"Grammatiche della creazione : [una serrata indagine sul mistero della creatività, un'eloquente e drammatica diagnosi del nostro presente]"@it
"Grammars of Creation"@en
"Grammatiche della creazione"@it
"Grammatiche della creazione"
"Gramáticas de la creación"@es
"Gramáticas de la creación"
"Grammatik der Schöpfung"
"Grammaires de la Creation"
"Grammars of creation : originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990"
"Grammars of creation : originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990"@en
"Grammars of creation : originating in the Gifford lectures for 1990"
"Grammaires de la création"