Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society - Couverture rigide

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374123047 ISBN 13 : 9780374123048

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book-length essay by the great Peruvian novelist is an alarm call to Western civilisation, which is in danger of losing some of its most precious achievements. His starting point is the famous analysis by T.S. Eliot in Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Eliot wrote: 'I see no reason why...we may not even anticipate a period, of some duration, of which it will be possible to say that it will have no culture.' Vargas Llosa believes that moment has now arrived.

The essential difference between the older culture defended by Eliot and the hyper-entertainment culture we enjoy is that the artistic products of the former 'sought to transcend mere present time, to stay alive for future generations,' while the blockbuster, spectacular products of the latter are made to be consumed and instantly forgotten.

The disappearance of the old culture, he writes, implies the disappearance of the old concept of value. 'A new reality has appeared, that contains only scant traces of what it has replaced.'

Biographie de l'auteur

Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374123047
• ISBN 13: 9780374123048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 227
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