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'Wonderfully compelling' INDEPENDENT
A book unwritten is more than a void. It is one of the lives we could have lived, one of the journeys we did not take.
In this fiercely original and audacious work, Professor George Steiner tells of seven books he did not write - because intimacies and indiscretions were too intimidating; because the topic brought too much pain; because the emotional or intellectual challenge proved beyond his capabilities.
The books in question deal with a wide range of themes: the torment of the gifted among the very great; the experience of sex in different languages; a love for animals greater than for humans; a theology of emptiness.
But behind every good book lies one which remains unwritten, and it's the unwritten book which might have made the difference.
