Cultural Amnesia
04 September 2008Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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 Art
A lifetime in the making and containing...
Details
04 September 2008912 pages
9780330462471Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Clive James is one of the most ingeniously stimulating literary critics. Cultural Amnesia, with its encyclopedic length and organization and the intense jostle of its ideas, is to be dipped into over weeks and months. If the dipper occasionally brings up exasperation, it brings up astonished delight far more often; and, best of all, exasperated astonished delightBoston Globe
[A] fabulously gifted, enviably well-read, generously inclusive, and always commonsensical writerJohn Banville, author of The Sea, New York Review of Books
One stupendous starburst of wild brillianceSimon Schama, author of A History of Britain and host of Civilisations
Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization.J. M. Coetzee, author of Foe and Scenes From Provincial Life
