Título: George Steiner
Seção: Biography
Background: Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust. An article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath", saying that he is either "often credited with recasting the role of the critic", or a "pretentious namedropper" whose "range comes at the price of inaccuracy" and "complacency". Among his admirers, Steiner is ranked "among the great minds in today's literary world."

Conteúdo: George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, to Viennese Jewish parents Dr Frederick George Steiner and Mrs Else Steiner (nee Franzos). He has an elder sister, Ruth Lilian, who was born in Vienna in 1922. Frederick Steiner was a senior lawyer in the Austrian Central Bank, and Else Steiner was a Viennese grande dame.  Five years before George Steiner's birth, his father had moved his family from Austria to France to escape the growing threat of Nazism. He believed that Jews were "endangered guests wherever they went" and equipped his children with languages. Steiner grew up with three mother tongues: German, English, and French; his mother was multilingual and would often "begin a sentence in one language and end it in another."  When he was six years old, his father who believed in the importance of classical education taught him to read the Iliad in the original Greek. His mother, for whom "self-pity was nauseating", helped Steiner overcome a handicap he had been born with, a withered right arm. Instead of allowing him to become left-handed, she insisted he use his right hand as an able-bodied person would.  Steiner's first formal education took place at the Lycee Janson-de-Sailly in Paris. In 1940, during World War II, Steiner's father once again relocated his family, this time to New York City. Within a month of their move, the Nazis occupied Paris, and of the many Jewish children in Steiner's class at school, he was one of only two who survived the war. Again his father's in

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assistant: George Steiner was born in 1929

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assistant: Paris, to Viennese Jewish parents Dr Frederick George Steiner and Mrs Else Steiner (nee Franzos).

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assistant: He has an elder sister, Ruth Lilian, who was born in Vienna in 1922.

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assistant: Frederick Steiner was a senior lawyer in the Austrian Central Bank,

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assistant: Else Steiner was a Viennese grande dame.

user: Why was this so bad

assistant: Five years before George Steiner's birth, his father had moved his family from Austria to France to escape the growing threat of Nazism.

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assistant: believed that Jews were "endangered guests wherever they went" and equipped his children with languages.

user: Why was this so bad

assistant: Steiner grew up with three mother tongues: German, English, and French;

user: What did this mean for them

assistant: his mother was multilingual and would often "begin a sentence in one language and end it in another.

user: Why was this so bad

assistant: When he was six years old, his father who believed in the importance of classical education taught him to read the Iliad in the original Greek.