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Cultural Amnesia

By Clive James

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Cultural Amnesia

By Clive James

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'In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don't recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. The reader will recognize some of their names, while other names will be more obscure. My intellectual betes noires are here too, and the same division might apply.' An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is Clive James' unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. 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, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
912
Release Date:
2012-02-14
Publication Date:
2012-04-12
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0330481754
ISBN13:
9780330481755
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
633 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
45 cm

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