In Bluebeards Castle

Described by the New Yorker as “a brief and brilliant book,” In Bluebeard’s Castle has been hailed as a work of striking originality. In it, Steiner uses dense and plural learning to examine his topic. He takes us on a journey through history via figures like Yeats and Freud, revealing connections between such diverse topics as Renaissance art theory, nineteenth-century Idealism, the early-twentieth-century Macedonian struggle for independence, and Nazi policies against Gypsies.