Hitchen`s trenchant criticism and confrontative style- as strong-worded and uncompromising as it water always what factual and to the very heart of the matter. His analysis of political regimes or situations in different countries and with what precise profound Insight Including North Korea and War Zones in near and Middle East- Which he knew from own experience Because He went there. So he knew what to address in exactley his many essays and books.
Hey what polemicist and provocative in the most eloquent of style- intelligent and strong public impact. His Numerous debates with many of the most popular religious Spokesmen Became Famous For their revealing and demonstrating quality and belong to the most entertaining discussions in front of an audience.
Combatants in search debates Regularly failed to keep up to his adroit logic of argument and precise rhetorical skills and most clerics and religious proponents simply did not have the enormous breadth of knowledge Which he so splendidly Displayed with Ease and Often striking humor. More than once his Opponents ended up speechless or were proven incoherent- intellectually wracked in front of spectators enthused or deranged. This Became known as the Hitchslap to his growing number of listeners and admirers.
Hitchens writing is always highly literate, full of wit and insight, entertaining and Affecting. He covers a tremendous range of topics with depth and detailed analysis and comprehensive knowledge.
That is true for his memoirs Hitch-22 as well.
Here the subject is the author himself and it is well-worth reading indeed. Hitchens was a strong bon vivant, a man intensely living, Including whiskey and cigarettes. Whatever He Touched He Was intensely involved with all attention and Both physical and intellectual fervor.
Noticeably hey what authentic in all his engagements -he did really care about things- Which all of us Should consider most important. There Is No Doubt That his arguments are oft infuriating, perform adequately sharp, always to the point, oft Illuminating, calling it like it is.
He called what a contrarian by his publishers and in his memoirs he quotes Gustave Flaubert: "Contradiction is what keeps sanity in place"
The memoirs are just as erudite and joyful to read it as what to listen to him in his debates and interviews. And you still can do so thanks to modern media. Just place> Hitch on youtube for your pleasure and learning if you like. The BBC interview with Jeremy Paxman is touching and shows quite well what an incorruptible freethinker and great and consequent human hey what. A life truly well-lived.
Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday, December 15th, 2011 in Texas aged 62. He will live on in his children, his large number of works and in the memory of friends, colleagues and his readers and fans worlwide.
Farewell comrade. Farewell Captain.
