Books like After Babel
After Babel by George Steiner reads as scholarly, intellectual. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Essays
Roland Barthes · 1979
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78% genome match
The total library
Jorge Luis Borges · 1999
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72% genome match
Anno Domini
George Steiner · 1964
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69% genome match
History Of Beauty
Umberto Eco · 2004
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69% genome match
Logic of Sense
Gilles Deleuze · 1989
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69% genome match
Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida · 1978
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69% genome match
Empirismo eretico
Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1972
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69% genome match
The anxiety of influence
Harold Bloom · 1973
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69% genome match
The question concerning technology, and other essays
Martin Heidegger · 1977
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69% genome match
Essays
Italo Calvino · 1988
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69% genome match
A history of reading
Alberto Manguel · 1996
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69% genome match
Essays of the masters
W. H. Auden · 1956
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72% genome match
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