Content area
Full Text
Clive James. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. New York: Norton, 2007.
Clive James, an author of numerous books of criticism, autobiography, and poetry has provided in this book 110 biographical essays of celebrities, intellectuals, tyrants, and writers whose apothegms have fascinated James his entire adult life. His purpose is to combat what he perceives as a loss of learning and reason in Western society and to offer an antidote...