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Cultural Amnesia

Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007. The U.K. title, published by MacMillan, is Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, while the U.S. title, published by W. W. Norton, is Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts. The cover illustration was adapted from a work by German Modernist designer Peter Behrens.


“Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL”

Clive James book Cultural Amnesia

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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