George Steiner worried that he had not created, that all his work had revolved around the creativity of others. As a literary critic, he conveys a feeling of inferiority to the author he criticizes : "The distance between those who create literature and those who comment on it is enormous: an ontological distance, a distance from being." This phrase was left by the essayist and professor in a posthumous interview that he asked to do to his Italian friend Nuccio Ordine and to publish a day later

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