George Steiner

Comparative survey of the world's languages and their development. Discusses the social and political effects of language barriers and explores the possibility of a worldwide language.

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A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

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To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?

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The history of the 20th century told through the memories and reflections of the Spanish writer/politician Jorge Semprún, the Hungarian writer György Konrád, the cosmopolitan writer/literary critic George Steiner and the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.

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This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

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Comparative survey of the world's languages and their development. Discusses the social and political effects of language barriers and explores the possibility of a worldwide language.

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