Summary
James, who grew up in Australia, possesses a maverick streak that has made him a popular media figure in his adopted Britain, and Cultural Amnesia-an ironic title for an author who seems to forget nothing-proceeds according to a highly personal principle of selection.
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Fallen Heroes
Fallen Heroes Cultural Amnesia Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Clive James Norton, $35, 768 pp.
Somewhere in the ether of critic Clive James's imagination is a dowdy mitteleuropdisches coffeehouse where the shades of twentieth-century Western humanism congregate. Mostly French or Jewish, overwhelmi...See the full content of this document
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