Cultural Amnesia (eBook)

Notes in the Margin of My Time

Clive James (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
912 Seiten
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-330-46247-1 (ISBN)

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'A gigantic book on a gigantic theme' Sunday Times

'Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization' J. M. Coetzee

With three new essays and an introduction to the extras from the author, the special edition eBook adds new depth to an already absorbing book.

A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over 100 essays, it's the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, it's a book for our times -- and, indeed, for all time.

'Clive James is one of the most ingeniously stimulating literary critics now writing in English. 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 delight' Boston Globe

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With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, 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 ArtA lifetime in the making and containing over one hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth-century culture. James catalogues and explores the careers of many of the century's greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, with illuminating excursions into the minds of those historical figures - from Sir Thomas Browne to Montesquieu - who paved the way. Altogether, it is an illuminating work of extraordinary erudition.Organised alphabetically by surname, this almanac invites you to share in the connections James draws, and to make your own - whether you read cover-to-cover, or allow curiosity to guide you. 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, public memoir and personal record - and provides a field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.'Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization' - J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace'This is a beautiful book' - ObserverPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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• ISBN-10: 0-330-46247-4 / 0330462474
• ISBN-13: 978-0-330-46247-1 / 9780330462471