"When I first called on him, in the winter on 1957-8, in a house still
pockmarked with shellbursts and grenade splinters, I stood speechless before
the armada of his printed works, as it crowded the bookshelves. Lukacs
seized on my puerile wonder and blazed out of his chair in a motion at once
vulnerable and amused: `You want to know how one gets work done? It's easy.
House arrest, Steiner, house arrest!'"
--
[ taken from a review article in the Times Literary Supplement printed on
January 22, 1982, by George Steiner, on the life and work of Hungarian
radical Georg Lukacs ]
