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Lust In Four Languages Has Critics Railing

Posted at 7:16AM Thursday 14 Feb 2008

'Fiercely original and audacious" is how the publisher described professor George Steiner's new book, called, self-contradictingly, My Unwritten Books. Sex-crazed is the way most critics have seen it, predictably ignoring all the dull stuff on Judaism, education, Chinese civilisation and artistic rivalry, and homing in on chapter three, The Tongues of Eros, where Steiner relives a lifetime of lovemaking in a variety of languages.

"Compared to Professor Steiner, the autobiography of the busty glamour-model Jordan is a beacon of restraint," said Craig Brown in the Daily Telegraph.

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