'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 it...(展开全部)

In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don’t recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern cultur...(展开全部)

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 o...(展开全部)

Echoing Edward Said s belief that Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism, the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life s work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, "Cultural Amnesia" illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artis...(展开全部)

詹姆斯•斯丘达穆尔（James Scudamore） 童年时居所不定，曾居住在日本、巴西、厄瓜多尔、英国，获得了牛津大学现代语的最高学位。 大学毕业后在广告界工作了四年，创作出了轰动一时的作品。之后，他感到就广告专业而言，已经做到了自己的极致，于是转而尝试写作。《失忆诊所》是他的处女作，写成之后，惊艳文坛。

Anti and Fabin are best friends and classmates at the Quito International School. Anti (short for Anthony) is the quiet, asthmatic English kid, and Fabin is the charismatic and flamboyant local. Anti lives in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents, while Fabin lives with his cool, eccentric Uncle Suarez. Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his pa...(展开全部)

Anti, a quiet English boy living in Quito, Ecuador, strikes up a friendship with flamboyant classmate Fabian, who is everything Anti isn't: handsome, athletic and popular. What's more, he lives with his rakish Uncle Suarez, while Anti is stuck in the dull ex-pat world inhabited by his parents. Suarez, a storyteller par excellence, infects the boys with his passion for outlandis...(展开全部)

關於真相，有想像力的人會怎麼說……？ 在遙遠南美厄瓜多的基多，沉靜的15歲英國小男孩小安與當地的男孩費邊，因為一場水球爆炸事件成了死黨。費邊長得好看、又會運動、大家都喜歡他，而且，他還跟一個又酷又愛搞怪的舅舅蘇瓦雷滋住在一起；哪像小安跟父母住在平淡無奇的僑民區。 蘇瓦雷滋對詭異故事的癖好，深深影響著他們。說故事這碼子事，成為左右兩個男孩之間關係的奇異媒介。 但是費邊為何從未提起自己的雙親？從那場殺死父親的車禍中失蹤的母親，還活著嗎？當與他們失蹤相關的細節浮現，小安配合編造了一個故事來安慰他的朋友。他告訴費邊，他的母親可能住在海邊一幢怪誕的失憶診所裡。 出於情感的迷亂和現實的斷裂，兩個男孩展開了一場橫跨厄瓜多的異想之旅，尋找似有若無、虛無飄渺的失憶診所…… 我們對吸血鬼德古拉、蝙蝠俠和星際大戰裡的蘇洛船長一視同仁深信不移 ──不是看他們到底有多真實的評...(展开全部)

希望的羽翼真的存在吗？

希望的羽翼真的存在吗？