Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007.
Subjects
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 Kovaly
- 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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