Great literary interpretation of the current crisis of culture

Review of In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George Steiner

Even though this book is over 50 years old, it a masterly attempt to understand the crisis of the contemporary era. Steiner was a literary critic and academic, but also a polymath and could evoke, with phenomenal depth, an astonishing array of disciplines, from history and language to mathematics, music, and computer technology. Perhaps the most amazing…