Synopsis
Cultural Amnesia: A Masterful Collection of Essays on Twentieth-Century Luminaries, from Louis Armstrong to Franz Kafka
In Cultural Amnesia, acclaimed critic Clive James presents a series of captivating essays on the artists, thinkers, and cultural figures who shaped the twentieth century. From jazz legend Louis Armstrong to philosopher Walter Benjamin, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to writer Franz Kafka, and beloved children's author...
Details
28 April 2022912 pages
9781529077346Imprint: 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
