The Metropolitan Critic

In 1974 The Metropolitan Critic started a new trend in cultural comment which has since become an orthodoxy. The young Clive James was the first journalist in London to talk about high culture and pop culture in the same all-consuming, sparkling style. Even at that early stage, the learning behind his literary high-wire act was formidable: a portent of the wide-ranging erudition that in subsequent years was to back up his four further volumes of critical prose and the television column that made him famous. An extra delight of this new edition is a set of newly-written self-critical footnotes which combine with a nostalgic introduction to evoke what literary London was like when the author, low on salary but high on hope, was making his spectacular start.

Product details

• Authors: Clive James
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9781447267904
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-6790-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social & cultural history, HUMOR / Form / Essays, Humour, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Modern / 20th Century