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Cultural Amnesia

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28 April 2022
912 pages
9781529077346
Imprint: Picador

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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