Cultural Amnesia (book)
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"One insults the memory of the victims of Nazism if one uses them to bury the memory of the victims of communism."--La Grande Parade (2000) by Jean-François Revel cited in Cultural Amnesia (2007) by Clive James "Aron's Realpolitik was distinguished by being real, as Realpolitik in the strict sense rarely is." --Cultural Amnesia (2007) by Clive James "Men play at love to get sex and women play at sex to get love."--quoted in Cultural Amnesia (2007) by Clive James "I have a number of pear-shaped ideas I would like to discuss with you." --W. C. Fields quoted in Cultural Amnesia (2007) by Clive James |
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Cultural Amnesia (2007) is a book of biographical essays by Clive James.
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
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Norman Mailer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Golo Mann
- Heinrich Mann
- Michael Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Mao Zedong
- Chris Marker
- 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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