Unreliable Memories

Clive, James

JONATHAN CAPE.

'These literary-critical essays are compact with wit and penetration but also have a kind of freshness about them, as if the author has never got over his first rapture of enjoyment at the sheer thisness of poetry and prose. James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Desmond MacCarthy, with a gusto worthy to succeed theirs and a philosophy well set out in his own introduction. "Literature", he writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure' John Bayley, Observer 'His outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveller with patience, knowledge and wit round some favourite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor ...the lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Times Literary Supplement 'Mr James is hungry for -- and not unworthy of -- engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence ...tellingly timely' Sunday Times

From the land of shadows

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Cultural Amnesia

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Macmillan

Visions Before Midnight

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Pan Books, Ltd.

Glued to the Box: Television Criticism from "The Observer" 1979-82

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Picador

CLIVE JAMES ON TELEVISION (PICADOR BOOKS)

Movies

Clive James on television

Literature & Fiction

The Metropolitan Critic: Non Fiction 1968-1973

In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James-dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With Falling Towards Edgland, we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&amp;B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpieces he`s yet to compose, and worries about his wardrobe. Finally, May Week Was in June sees Clive at Cambridge University, where he enthusiastically involves himself in college life (generally female lives) until May week-not only in June but also a fortnight long-when he gets married. The rest, of course, is history-or, at least, awaiting a fourth volume of memoirs.

Always Unreliable : Memoirs

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

`A gigantic book on a gigantic theme` Sunday Times 
`Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization` J. M. Coetzee 
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is the book Clive James has always wanted to write. Organized from A through to Z, and containing over 100 essays, it`s 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 time.
`Clive James is one of the most ingeniously stimulating literary critics now writing in English. Cultural Amnesia, with its encyclopedic length and organization and the intense jostle of its ideas, is to be dipped into over weeks and months. If the dipper occasionally brings up exasperation, it brings up astonished delight far more often; and, best of all, exasperated astonished delight` Boston Globe

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