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Cultural Amnesia

Notes in the Margin of My Time

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Cultural Amnesia

De : Clive James
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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James.

With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.

A comprehensive survey of modern culture, 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.

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    Commentaires

    "Clever, and funny....a wonderful book for a long afternoon in a left-bank cafe, or a transatlantic plane ride." ( The Observer)
    "On virtually every page, there is an arresting sentence, witty or profound." ( Mail on Sunday)
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    In this abridged work, Australian-born author Clive James presents an overview of the various cultural players that he considers most significant, be they writers, actors, politicians, etc.

    A short, very personal rundown is presented for each, in alphabetical order. Persons covered are wide-ranging and include, among others: Charles Chaplin, Albert Camus, Tony Curtis, Serge Diaghilev, Federico Fellini, Charles De Gaulle, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, G. W. F. Hegel, Adolf Hitler, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tacitus, Leon Trotsky and Stefan Zweig.

    Contemporary readers may cringe at the fact that very few women are included and that they encompass Coco Chanel and Beatrix Potter who may strike many as not overly significant.

    Despite being of Australian origin, the author has a very Western vision and covers only two Asians … and a single person from his own country, Alan Moorehead, a war correspondent.

    Overall, this offering is certainly worthwhile and will succeed in enticing many readers to find out more elsewhere about cultural persona they know little or not at all.

    Cursory but Interesting!

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