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-'''''Cultural Amnesia''''' is a book of biographical essays by [[Clive James]], first published in 2007. The U.K. title, published by [[Macmillan Publishers|MacMillan]], is '''''Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time''''', while the U.S. title, published by [[W.W. Norton]], is '''''Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts'''''.+'''Robert Brasillach''' (31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach is best known as the editor of ''[[Je suis partout]]'', a nationalist newspaper which came to advocate various [[fascist]] movements and supported [[Jacques Doriot]]. After the liberation of France in 1944 he was [[capital punishment|executed]] following a trial and [[Charles de Gaulle]]'s express refusal to grant him a pardon. Brasillach was executed for advocating [[collaborationism]], denunciation and incitement to murder. The execution remains a subject of some controversy, because Brasillach was executed for "intellectual crimes", rather than military or political actions.
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-==Contents==+
-The book is a series of essays on 106 people James has been fascinated by, most of them from the 20th century. The chapters are in alphabetical order of the subject's name, as follows:+
-*[[Anna Akhmatova]]+
-*[[Peter Altenberg]]+
-*[[Louis Armstrong]]+
-*[[Raymond Aron]]+
-*[[Walter Benjamin]]+
-*[[Marc Bloch]]+
-*[[Jorge Luis Borges]]+
-*[[Robert Brasillach]]+
-*[[Sir Thomas Browne]]+
-*[[Albert Camus]]+
-*[[Dick Cavett]]+
-*[[Paul Celan]]+
-*[[Chamfort]]+
-*[[Coco Chanel]]+
-*[[Charles Chaplin]]+
-*[[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]]+
-*[[G. K. Chesterton]]+
-*[[Jean Cocteau]]+
-*[[Gianfranco Contini]]+
-*[[Benedetto Croce]]+
-*[[Tony Curtis]]+
-*[[Ernst Robert Curtius]]+
-*[[Miles Davis]]+
-*[[Sergei Diaghilev]]+
-*[[Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]]+
-*[[Alfred Einstein]]+
-*[[Duke Ellington]]+
-*[[Federico Fellini]]+
-*[[W. C. Fields]]+
-*[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]+
-*[[Gustave Flaubert]]+
-*[[Sigmund Freud]]+
-*[[Egon Friedell]]+
-*[[François Furet]]+
-*[[Charles de Gaulle]]+
-*[[Edward Gibbon]]+
-*[[Terry Gilliam]]+
-*[[Joseph Goebbels]]+
-*[[Witold Gombrowicz]]+
-*[[William Hazlitt]]+
-*[[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]+
-*[[Heinrich Heine]]+
-*[[Adolf Hitler]]+
-*[[Ricarda Huch]]+
-*[[Ernst Jünger]]+
-*[[Franz Kafka]]+
-*[[John Keats]]+
-*[[Leszek Kołakowski]]+
-*[[Alexandra Kollontai]]+
-*[[Heda Margolius Kovály]]+
-*[[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]]+
-*[[Georg Christoph Lichtenberg]]+
-*[[Norman Mailer]]+
-*[[Nadezhda Mandelstam]]+
-*[[Golo Mann]]+
-*[[Heinrich Mann]]+
-*[[Michael Mann (scholar)|Michael Mann]]+
-*[[Thomas Mann]]+
-*[[Mao Zedong]]+
-*[[Chris Marker]]+
-*[[John J. McCloy|John McCloy]]+
-*[[Zinka Milanov]]+
-*[[Czesław Miłosz]]+
-*[[Eugenio Montale]]+
-*[[Montesquieu]]+
-*[[Alan Moorehead]]+
-*[[Paul Muratov]]+
-*[[Lewis Namier]]+
-*[[Grigory Ordzhonokidze]]+
-*[[Octavio Paz]]+
-*[[Alfred Polgar]]+
-*[[Beatrix Potter]]+
-*[[Jean Prévost]]+
-*[[Marcel Proust]]+
-*[[Edgar Quinet]]+
-*[[Marcel Reich-Ranicki]]+
-*[[Jean-François Revel]]+
-*[[Richard Rhodes]]+
-*[[Rainer Maria Rilke]]+
-*[[Virginio Rognoni]]+
-*[[Ernesto Sabato]]+
-*[[Edward Said]]+
-*[[Sainte-Beuve]]+
-*[[José Saramago]]+
-*[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]+
-*[[Erik Satie]]+
-*[[Arthur Schnitzler]]+
-*[[Sophie Scholl]]+
-*[[Wolf Jobst Siedler]]+
-*[[Manès Sperber]]+
-*[[Tacitus]]+
-*[[Margaret Thatcher]]+
-*[[Henning von Tresckow]]+
-*[[Leon Trotsky]]+
-*[[Karl Tschuppik]]+
-*[[Dubravka Ugrešić]]+
-*[[Miguel de Unamuno]]+
-*[[Pedro Henríquez Ureña]]+
-*[[Paul Valéry]]+
-*[[Mario Vargas Llosa]]+
-*[[Evelyn Waugh]]+
-*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]+
-*[[Isoroku Yamamoto]]+
-*[[Aleksandr Zinoviev]]+
-*[[Carl Zuckmayer]]+
-*[[Stefan Zweig]]+
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Robert Brasillach (31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach is best known as the editor of Je suis partout, a nationalist newspaper which came to advocate various fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the liberation of France in 1944 he was executed following a trial and Charles de Gaulle's express refusal to grant him a pardon. Brasillach was executed for advocating collaborationism, denunciation and incitement to murder. The execution remains a subject of some controversy, because Brasillach was executed for "intellectual crimes", rather than military or political actions.

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