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2796825From the Land of Shadowshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/from-the-land-of-shadows-9781509822089/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3056893/8b72aebe-5a10-4fea-9d3a-18cfff056ab0.jpg?v=638384821292200000204231MXNPan MacmillanInStock/Ebooks/<p>His third book of cultural criticism, <em>From the Land of Shadows</em> sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best.</p><p>[T]he lasting impression is of our critics truly amazing breadth of reference <em>Times Literary Supplement</em></p><p>Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, this book contains engaging, informed discussions of such writers as Bernard Levin, Gore Vidal, John le Carré, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden and Vladimir Nabokov.</p><p>The four sections In a Free Society; Fact Meets Fiction; Poetry, Criticism & Aesthetics, and The Giant in the East together provide a lively image of literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century. The last section concerns Russian literature, the pieces written during the days of the Soviet Union and all the more fascinating for this context.</p><p><strong>"Literature", [James] writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure <em>Observer</em></strong></p><p><strong>Clive James</strong> (19392019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His much-loved, influential and hilarious television criticism is available both in individual volumes and collected in Clive James On Television. His encyclopaedic study of culture and politics in the twentieth century, Cultural Amnesia, remains perhaps the definitive embodiment of his wide-ranging talents as a critic.</p><p>Praise for Clive James:</p><p>The perfect critic A.O. Scott, <em>New York Times</em></p><p>There cant be many writers of my generation who havent been heavily influenced by Clive James Charlie Brooker</p><p>A wonderfully witty and intelligent writer Verity Lambert</p>...2733039From the Land of Shadows204231https://www.gandhi.com.mx/from-the-land-of-shadows-9781509822089/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3056893/8b72aebe-5a10-4fea-9d3a-18cfff056ab0.jpg?v=638384821292200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20159781509822089_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_<p>‘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, <em>Observer</em></p><p>‘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’ <em>Times Literary Supplement</em></p><p>‘Mr James is hungry for – and not unworthy of – engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence . . . tellingly timely’ <em>Sunday Times</em></p>(*_*)9781509822089_<p>His third book of cultural criticism, <em>From the Land of Shadows</em> sees essayist, critic and poet Clive James at his erudite, enlightening best.</p><p>[T]he lasting impression is of our critics truly amazing breadth of reference <em>Times Literary Supplement</em></p><p>Collecting his work from the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, this book contains engaging, informed discussions of such writers as Bernard Levin, Gore Vidal, John le Carré, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden and Vladimir Nabokov.</p><p>The four sections In a Free Society; Fact Meets Fiction; Poetry, Criticism & Aesthetics, and The Giant in the East together provide a lively image of literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century. The last section concerns Russian literature, the pieces written during the days of the Soviet Union and all the more fascinating for this context.</p><p><strong>"Literature", [James] writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure <em>Observer</em></strong></p><p><strong>Clive James</strong> (19392019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His much-loved, influential and hilarious television criticism is available both in individual volumes and collected in Clive James On Television. His encyclopaedic study of culture and politics in the twentieth century, Cultural Amnesia, remains perhaps the definitive embodiment of his wide-ranging talents as a critic.</p><p>Praise for Clive James:</p><p>The perfect critic A.O. Scott, <em>New York Times</em></p><p>There cant be many writers of my generation who havent been heavily influenced by Clive James Charlie Brooker</p><p>A wonderfully witty and intelligent writer Verity Lambert</p>...9781509822089_Pan Macmillanlibro_electonico_ea8d2228-3d30-363b-9bc1-551ecaa987f1_9781509822089;9781509822089_9781509822089Clive JamesInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/macmillanuk-epub-b4e2ca20-098c-4801-8039-f5d755f4156a.epub2015-10-08T00:00:00+00:00Pan Macmillan