Cultural Amnesia (book)
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Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007.
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The book is ordered into an alphabetical series of essays concerning cultural or historical figures, mostly from the 20th century. The people James discusses are as follows:
- Anna Akhmatova
- Peter Altenberg
- Louis Armstrong
- Raymond Aron
- Walter Benjamin
- Marc Bloch
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Robert Brasillach
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Albert Camus
- Dick Cavett
- Paul Celan
- Chamfort
- Coco Chanel
- Charles Chaplin
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- G. K. Chesterton
- Jean Cocteau
- Gianfranco Contini
- Benedetto Croce
- Tony Curtis
- Ernst Robert Curtius
- Miles Davis
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
- Alfred Einstein
- Duke Ellington
- Federico Fellini
- W. C. Fields
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gustave Flaubert
- Sigmund Freud
- Egon Friedell
- François Furet
- Charles de Gaulle
- Edward Gibbon
- Terry Gilliam
- Josef Goebbels
- Witold Gombrowicz
- William Hazlitt
- Hegel
- Heinrich Heine
- Adolf Hitler
- Ricarda Huch
- Ernst Jünger
- Franz Kafka
- John Keats
- Leszek Kolakowski
- Alexandra Kollontai
- Heda Margolius Kovály
- Karl Kraus
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Norman Mailer
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Golo Mann
- Heinrich Mann
- Michael Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Mao Zedong
- Chris Marker
- John McCloy
- Zinka Milanov
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Eugenio Montale
- Montesquieu
- Alan Moorehead
- Paul Muratov
- Lewis Namier
- Grigory Ordzhonokidze
- Octavio Paz
- Alfred Polgar
- Beatrix Potter
- Jean Prévost
- Marcel Proust
- Edgar Quinet
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- Jean-François Revel
- Richard Rhodes
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Virginio Rognoni
- Ernesto Sabato
- Edward Said
- Sainte-Beuve
- José Saramago
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Erik Satie
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Sophie Scholl
- Wolf Jobst Siedler
- Manès Sperber
- Tacitus
- Margaret Thatcher
- Henning von Tresckow
- Leon Trotsky
- Karl Tschuppik
- Dubravka Ugresic
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Pedro Henriquez Ureña
- Paul Valéry
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Evelyn Waugh
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Aleksandr Zinoviev
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig
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