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Notes on the Death of Culture - Couverture souple

Vargas, Mario Llosa

 
9781250094742: Notes on the Death of Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1250094747 ISBN 13 : 9781250094742
Editeur : Picador Paper, 2016

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life

In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation--penned by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today.

Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot--whose essay "Notes Toward a Definition of Culture" is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished--Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.

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À propos des auteurs

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.

John King edited From Oslo to Jerusalem from I. B. Tauris.

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Éditeur
Picador Paper
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250094747
ISBN 13 
9781250094742
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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