by George Steiner · Azul Editorial (Barcelona) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495488060
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«La muerte de la tragedia» is a literary criticism essay by George Steiner, published by Azul Editorial in paperback (298 pages, in Spanish).
A literary criticism essay in which George Steiner explores why tragedy, a central form of theatre for centuries, lost its place on the modern stage. He analyses works by Sophocles, Shakespeare and later authors to trace the artistic and social conditions that made classical tragedy possible and those that led to its decline.
First edition (1st ed., 1st printing) with a translation by Enrique Luis Revol, published in May 2001.
For readers of literary criticism and theatre theory, as well as for those who follow George Steiner's essayistic work.
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
