- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; First Edition edition (18 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571179916
- ISBN-13: 978-0571179916
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 512,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Surfing the Zeitgeist is a collection of essays by Britain's preeminent post-modernist. Confronted with a world in which too much is changing too fast, the attitude of most British critics is simply to ignore the fact that today's culture is in a state of constant ebullience and continue turning out, or churning out, week after week, month after month, the kind of article, a complacent conflation of artistic impressions, that could have been written thirty, fifty or a hundred years ago. Gilbert Adair is a critic with a difference. Witty, perspicacious and in love with language, he is prepared to engage with the multifarious realities of our culture - culture in the least restricted sense of the word. He is prepared to embrace them, if not unconditionally, then at least without encumbering hinself with any twinges of nostalgia for the past's redundant credos and repertories. The essays which make up this collection - on subjects as various as postmodernism and pop music, AIDS and art movies, Tintin and the Titanic - thus constitute a uniquely stimulating record of the nineties and, like the cool, glinting surfaces of a Calder mobile, reflect the most significant fragments of our cultural agenda.
About the Author
Gilbert Adair has published novels, essays, translations, children's books and poetry. He has also written screenplays, including The Dreamers from his own novel for Bernardo Bertolucci.
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A Solid Effort!, 7 May 2001
By Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Surfing the Zeitgeist (Paperback)
Gilbert Adair, a novelist, biographer, and critic presents a series of eighty essays about the state of culture. He focuses on politics and on the popular and literary arts - cinema, theater, opera, fiction, and visual arts. Though the title might suggest a comprehensive analysis of today's cultural trends, his "surfing" has nothing to do with the Web. Instead, his overview is highly infused with a British literary and artistic sensibility. These essays are perfect for intellectual, cultural connoisseurs. However, recreational readers may find Adair's numerous references to the early 1990s British cultural scene obscure and remote. Adair discusses some American movies and offers some interesting insights, although his writing is complex, even convoluted. The dense essays are packed with literary asides and personal references. We [...] recommend this book to students of modern culture, arts aficionados of an intellectual or Anglophile bent, and those who read everything about the movies, no matter how challenging.
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Great book (but it's not hardcover!), 13 Oct 1999
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This review is from: Surfing the Zeitgeist (Paperback)
This isn't so much a review as a correction - this book is a paperback. It's worth every cent though!
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