America Deserta
Richard Poirier, 16 February 1989
America
by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner.
Verso, 129 pp., £12.95, November 1988,0 86091 220 5 Show More
by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner.
Verso, 129 pp., £12.95, November 1988,
America Observed: The Newspaper Years of Alistair Cooke
by Ronald Wells.
Reinhardt, 233 pp., £12.95, November 1988,1 871061 09 1 Show More
by Ronald Wells.
Reinhardt, 233 pp., £12.95, November 1988,
American Journals
by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick.
Hamish Hamilton, 155 pp., £11.95, February 1989,0 241 12621 5 Show More
by Albert Camus, translated by Hugh Levick.
Hamish Hamilton, 155 pp., £11.95, February 1989,
“... I think, therefore I am’ was not supposed by Descartes to apply only to those for whom thinking is a line of work. That would appear to be the operating assumption, however, of the celebrated French sociologist-philosopher Jean Baudrillard in America, the latest of his works translated into English. At first the reader might wonder why a prose as dense as his should be made more so by having it stretched across pages of a width and gloss more appropriate to an otherwise agreeably produced and illustrated coffee-table book ... ”
