Cultural Amnesia

<p><b>With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, <i>Cultural Amnesia</i> is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.<br><br>'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' &ndash; Simon Schama, historian and author of <i>The Power of Art</i></b><br><br>A lifetime in the making and containing over one hundred essays, this is a definitive guide to twentieth-century culture. James catalogues and explores the careers of many of the century's greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, with illuminating excursions into the minds of those historical figures &ndash; from Sir Thomas Browne to Montesquieu &ndash; who paved the way. Altogether, it is an illuminating work of extraordinary erudition. <br><br>Organised alphabetically by