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| Género/Forma: | Biography Biographies History Kultur- och samhällsliv |
|---|---|
| Tipo de material: | Biografía, Recurso en Internet |
| Tipo de documento | Libro, Recurso internet |
| Todos autores / colaboradores: |
Clive James |
| ISBN: | 9780393061161 0393061167 9780393333541 039333354X |
| Número OCLC: | 76183163 |
| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción: | xxxii, 876 pages : portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contenido: | Overture : Vienna -- 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 -- Josef Goebbels -- Witold Gombrowicz -- William Hazlitt -- Hegel -- Heinrich Heine -- Adolf Hitler -- Ricarda Huch -- Ernst Jünger -- Franz Kafka -- John Keats -- Leszek Kolakowski -- Alexandra Kollontai -- Heda Margolius Kovaly -- 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 -- Czeslaw Milosz -- 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 Ugresic -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Pedro Henriquez Ureña -- Paul Valéry -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Evelyn Waugh -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Isoroku Yamamoto -- Aleksandr Zinoviev -- Carl Zuckmayer -- Stefan Zweig -- Coda : Kun-Han-Su : Eckstein and the Egyptian Kinghopper. |
| Responsabilidad: | Clive James. |
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Cultural Amnesia
Book Review submitted by: Stephen J. Hage
In the introduction Clive James offers this as prelude to what's coming: "What this book then proposes-what it embodies, I hope-is something difficult enough to be satisfactory for an age in which to be presented with nothing except reassurance...
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Book Review submitted by: Stephen J. Hage
In the introduction Clive James offers this as prelude to what's coming: "What this book then proposes-what it embodies, I hope-is something difficult enough to be satisfactory for an age in which to be presented with nothing except reassurance is ceasing to be tolerable."
At the end of the introduction James offers this: "What I propose is a sum of appreciations that includes an appreciation of their interdependence: a new humanism.
What these words mean is expect to encounter chateaubriand, bouillabaisse, caviar and lobster instead of pablum. It's not a breezy read. It is, rather, one that grabs you by the throat, wrestles you to the ground and forces you to pay attention. I promise it will not put you to sleep.
James is a world renowned critic. I became aware of him and this book while watching him being interviewed on the PBS television series Bill Moyer's Journal.
The book is big, 851 pages; but it is divided into essays listed in alphabetical order dealing with historical figures and luminaries like Louis Armstrong, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Miles Davis, Adolph Hitler, Franz Kafka, and Margaret Thatcher. And keep in mind, this is just a smattering.
As I read it I became increasingly impressed with how learned, intelligent and urbane Clive James truly is. He can speak, read and write in several languages and his curiosity along with his deep commitment to humanism infuses every idea he presents in every essay.
The essays are bite sized making this a book that invites you to take it in; in bite sized chunks and almost fooling you into thinking it might be easy-breezy. But as I said, it's not.
While reading it and afterwards, what struck me and haunted me most was this thought: I'll never be able to write as well as this. I am a writer but Clive uses words to reveal he is both magician and sage.
Read this book and feast on the incredibly sumptuous bite sized offerings within; but don't gorge, that might make you sick.
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