Clive James, Unsigned Review, a Testament to Self-Control, ‘Times Literary Supplement'

Clive James (b. 1939) is a writer and broadcaster (and for several years television critic for the ‘Observer’); his publications include ‘Unreliable Memoirs’ (1980) and ‘The Crystal Bucket’ (1981). This review is reprinted in his collection of essays ‘At the Pillars of Hercules’ (1979).