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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( J ) : James, Clive
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"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read—or laughed as much while doing it."—Jacob Weisberg, Slate
Finally in paperback after six hardcover printings, this international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece—the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost.
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Inspired, through his vast reading, by the poetic voices of the past, yet always speaking in a voice unmistakably his own, Clive James ineffably combines humor and great tragedy (but never solemnity) to create poems that are at once traditional yet engagingly fresh. With this coruscating work, James, swimming through cultural debris both high and low, dispenses with his reputation as a perennial court jester, establishing himself as a poet of enduring power and resonance.from "Angels Over Elsinore"
How many angels knew who Hamlet was
When they were summoned by Horatio?
They probably showed up only because
The roster said it was their turn to go.
Another day, another Dane. Too bad,
But while they sang their well-rehearsed lament
They noticed his good looks. Too soon, too sad,
This welcome home for what seemed heaven sent.
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It is impossible not to be awed by the remarkable range and massive erudition of Clive James, one of the greatest literary critics of our age. In the tradition of Edmund Wilson, James is a brilliant stylist so perceptive (and funny) that he renders the twisted literary terrain of the twentieth century remarkably accessible. In As of This Writing James has assembled his most ambitious and expansive collection to date, a book that features forty-nine essays on poetry, film, culture, and fiction written between 1967 and 2001. Whether commenting on poets like Auden or Jarrell, novelists like D. H. Lawrence and James Agee (not to mention Judith Krantz), or filmmakers like Fellini or Bogdanovich, James delights his readers with his manic energy and critical aplomb. This volume is a literary education that few recent books can rival.
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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, Alone in the Cafe is Clives unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-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 recordand 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.
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Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) of many talents, and the essays collected here are testament to that fact. Whether discussing Bing Crosby, Bruno Schulz or Shakespeare, he manages to prioritize style and substance simultaneously, his tone never less than pitch-perfect, his argument always considered. With each phrase carefully crafted and each piece offering cause for thought, the resulting volumewhich takes the reader from London to Bali, theatre to library, from pre-election campaigning to sitting in front of the TV at home, watching The Sopranos and The West Wingis remarkable not only for its range and insight, but also its intimacy and honesty. A contemporary everyman, James is also unmistakably himself, and The Meaning of Recognition shows him at his witty, learnedand heartfeltbest.
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After Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week Was in June comes the next installment in the ongoing saga that is Clive James life. At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so he informed his journal, reasonably satisfied. But what happened next? This is the question posed (and answered) by North Face of Soho. Intelligent, amusing, and provocativethe words apply to the man himself as much as his writingthe fourth volume of Unreliable Memoirs is every bit as eventful, entertaining, engrossing, and honest as the previous three.
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Falling Towards England—the second volume of Clive James’s Unreliable Memoirs, was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that’s not the case. Unreliable Memoirs #3 details Clive’s time at Cambridge: the Footlights, film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often) . As ever, Clive James is brilliantly funny—and perhaps most brilliant, and funniest, on the subject he knows best: himself.
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Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive selection of Clive Jamess outstanding essays, chosen from thirty years of spellbinding prose. Including such classic pieces as his Postcard From Rome and his memorable observations on Margaret Thatcher, it also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, while elsewhere showcasing Jamess more reflective and analytical side. From Germaine Greer to Marilyn Monroe, from the nature of celebrity to German culpability for the Holocaust, Reliable Essays is an unmissable cultural index of the twentieth century.
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When we last met our hero in Unreliable Memoirs, he had set sail from Sydney Harbour bound for London, fame, and fortune. Idealistic and uncompromising, if short on cash, he planned to engage himself in a low-paying menial job by day and to compose poetical masterpieces by night. Having promised himself he would never succumb to such stop-gap occupations as publishing or advertising, he was happily unsuccessful in landing either job—at least initially. Positions with London Transport and as a wine expert were likewise denied him. Scarcely daunted, he moved into a bed and breakfast in a Swiss Cottage where he practised the Twist, anticipated the poetical masterpieces, and worried about his wardrobe.
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Effervescent, energetic and eclectic, this is one of the late Twentieth Century's finest minds (and bellies) on show. Even As We Speak is an illuminating and hilarious collection of essays by one of Picador's most beloved authors. He focusses on Australian poetry; on television today; on the rise and fall of various icons; on the question of the culpability of the ordinary German in the holocaust; and there is a compellingly provocative and much-talked about piece on the death of Diana.
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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2819 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
Author: Daniel D'Arezzo
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 189 Issue: 6 Page: 501(8)
Article Type: Letter to the editor
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3162 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Listening for the flavor: a notebook.(COMMENT)(Critical essay)
Author: Clive James
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 189 Issue: 3 Page: 219(9)
Article Type: Critical essay
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Suzuki's reserved, driven, Japanese existence is turned completely upside down when he moves to London and starts sleeping with a glamorous yuppie stockbroker, in a farcical romp that lampoons both Eastern and Western cultures. 12,500 first printing.
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