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Cultural Amnesia
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Cultural Amnesia
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With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James''s illustrious career as a critic.''One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance'' – Simon Schama, historian and author of The Power of ArtA lifetime in the making and containing over one hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth-century culture. James catalogues and explores the careers of many of the century''s greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, with illuminating excursions into the minds of those historical figures – from Sir Thomas Browne to Montesquieu – who paved the way. Altogether, it is an illuminating work of extraordinary erudition. Organised alphabetically by surname, this almanac invites you to share in the connections James draws, and to make your own – whether you read cover-to-cover, or allow curiosity to guide you. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, public memoir and personal record – and provides a field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.''Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization'' – J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace''This is a beautiful book'' – ObserverPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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| Author | Clive James |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-13 | 9781529077346 |
| Item Height | 5.9 |
| Item Length | 13.3 |
| Item Width | 19.8 |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan Paperbacks |
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