The Death of Tragedy (Faber Library) by George Steiner (PDF)

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An engrossing and provocative look at the decline of tragedy in modern art“All men are aware of tragedy in life. But tragedy as a form of drama is not universal.” So begins George Steiner’s adept analysis of the demise of classic tragedy as a dramatic depiction of heroism and suffering. In The Death of Tragedy, Steiner examines the uniqueness and importance of the Greek classical tragedy—from antiquity to the age of Jean Racine and William Shakespeare—as providing stark insight into the grief and joy of human existence. Then, delving into the works of John Keats, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, and many more, Steiner demonstrates how the tragic voice has greatly diminished in modern theater, and what we have lost in the process.

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⭐This book does a great and thought provoking look at the development of tragedy (in the sense of the Greek play). It fails to receive 5 stars only because it lacks a compelling conclusionary statement to tie the whole book together neatly. A very worthwhile read.

⭐The guys is obviously very erudite but much of it is about French plays and the French language & its Roman/Greek tragedy heritage. He makes his points by extensively quoting French plays in French – since I don’t speak French it’s difficult to recommend it to a non-French speaker. As a fan of Shakespeare I did learn some things I didn’t know and thought it was a very interesting comparison & contrast but, still, I believe I’d need French to fully appreciate this book (not the author’s fault). I’ve read a few of Steiner’s essays and this guy obviously is way smarter than the average bear – and he does really write well (I’d give it 3 1/2 stars if I could).

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⭐The tragedy has lost its real dimension in the modern times . The triviality understood as the absence of psychic tensions. We hardly are capable to experience this state due we have found the immediate solution : the therapy , and any other way of easy activity allows us to escape . We want to know about our micro destinies reading the horoscopes .In the other hand all the religions have confined its real meaning to spiritual designs and literally has invaded its territories . Shakespeare appears after centuries of silence in this sense . But the XVII century was a trivial century ; you only find cynicism and tedious. “All the men have conscience of the tragedy in the life but the tragedy as theatrical way is not universal”Steiner makes an intelligent study about the tragedy ,and goes far beyond .Excellent text all the way.

⭐If you have ever sat down with quill pen to attempt a blank verse tragedy, only to tear up your notes, this is the book for you. Tragedy as a genre remains the rara avis in the history of art, and its brief appearances seem to accompany periods of history going into high gear. Its reappearance in the early modern, followed by its steady decline in modernist amnesia, is a challenge to our basic conceptions of the technological quick fix, and the presumption our potential is open to our rational powers. Steiner reviews the enigma of this history, on and off, and focusses on the ‘death’ of the genre in more recent modern times, cataloguing the consistent string of failures even in many of the best later poets, from Dryden to Keats. Some might disagree with the verdict, yet one must confront the facts, which cannot, however, condemn us to the final demise of this artform, since its very history shows its sudden and unexpected rebirth. Yet the whole question is bound in some primordial evolution of language and its poetics, as these seem better tilled soil at the beginning than over the course of subsequent development, witness the richness of the first source, Homer’s Iliad, the master chord from which the tragical melody sounds its echoes.

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