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'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 20th-century. From Charles de Gaulle to Thomas Mann, from Hitler to Wittgenstein, from Argentina to Australia, 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.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Indexed selectively
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Dedication: To Aung San Suu Kyi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ingrid Betancourt and to the memory of Sophie Scholl
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Included in the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books List for 2007.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
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Americas,:W. W. Norton
, 2007 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.-
Chris Marker,
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Clive James discusses the difference between truth and the 'power of the story' using the documentaries of French film maker Chris Marker and the Tampa incident and asylum seeker debate in Australia in 2001.
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Clear View from the Antipodes,
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'Pioneering expatriate writer and peerless war correspondent Alan Moorhead helped to bring Australia closer to the centre of global affairs.' (Editor's headline in Australian Literary Review)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Clive James' Europe without Baedeker
2007
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review
— Appears in: Quadrant , September vol. 51 no. 9 2007; (p. 86-88)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Our Prodigious Son
2007
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 August 2007; (p. 21) -
Don't Forget About Me
2007
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 August 2007; (p. 4) -
Clive's Culturama
2007
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 293 2007; (p. 13-14)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Untitled
2007
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correspondence
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 May 2007; (p. 2) Sandie Price comments on the dearth of women represented in Clive James's Cultural Amnesia, suggesting it might have been more accurately titled 'Gender Amnesia'.
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[Review] Cultural Amnesia
2007
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 86 no. 7 2007; (p. 40)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Taking on the Barbarians
2007
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review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 31 March 2007; (p. 11)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Towards More Reliable Memories
Down to the 'Bloody Crossroads'
2007
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review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 March - 1 April 2007; (p. 32-33) The Age , 31 March 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Poetical Journey
2007
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 April 2007; (p. 27)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Jottings of a True Intellectual
2007
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review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 April 2007; (p. 5)
— Review of Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 2007 anthology essay prose extract -
Thrive with Clive
2007
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 24-25 March 2007; (p. 40) -
The World According to Clive
2007
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— Appears in: The Age , 24 March 2007; (p. 12-13) The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 March 2007; (p. 4-5) -
Clive, Our Everyman of Letters
2007
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 April 2007; (p. 4-5) -
Untitled
2007
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 May 2007; (p. 2) Sandie Price comments on the dearth of women represented in Clive James's Cultural Amnesia, suggesting it might have been more accurately titled 'Gender Amnesia'. -
Don't Forget About Me
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 August 2007; (p. 4)
Awards
- 2008 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
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