Cultural Amnesia

A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James always wanted to write. Organised from A through to Z, and containing over 100 essays, it is the ultimate guide to the twentieth century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers. From Louis Armstrong to Ludwig Wittgenstein, via Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, it’s a book for our times – and, indeed, for all times.