Cultural Amnesia - Notes in the Margin of My Time (CD, Annotated Ed)


'In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don't recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. The reader will recognize some of their names, while other names will be more obscure. My intellectual betes noires are here too, and the same division might apply.'An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, "Cultural Amnesia" is Clive's unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.

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'In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don't recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. The reader will recognize some of their names, while other names will be more obscure. My intellectual betes noires are here too, and the same division might apply.'An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, "Cultural Amnesia" is Clive's unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.

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Imprint

Macmillan Digital Audio

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

April 2008

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Dimensions

125 x 142 x 24mm (L x W x T)

Format

CD

Running time

6 hours

Edition

Annotated Ed

ISBN-13

978-0-230-70838-9

Barcode

9780230708389

Categories

LSN

0-230-70838-2



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