Cultural Amnesia
04 April 2008Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
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.
'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' – Simon Schama, historian and author of The Power of...
Details
04 April 2008380 minutes
Clive James
9780230710542Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
One stupendous starburst of wild brillianceSimon Schama, author of The Power of Art
Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilizationJ. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace
Over the past forty years James has been scribbling notes in the margins of the books he has read . . . and this is the result. Clever, contentious and funnyGuardian
Witty, insightful and unashamedly erudite, the book is a superb miscellany of 20th-century cultural and political subjectsSunday Times
