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Farrar Straus And Giroux
Mario Vargas Llosa
Notes On The Death Of Culture: Essays On Spectacle And Society
N/A
2015
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Publisher > Farrar Straus And Giroux
Author > Mario Vargas Llosa
Title > Notes On The Death Of Culture: Essays On Spectacle And
Society
Issue > N/A
Year > 2015
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ISBN > 9780374710316
Pages > 241
Genre > Sociology Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2015-08
Release > 2026-09-23
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA provocative essay collection that
finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual lifeIn 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 transformationpenned by none other than
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
Eliotwhose essay Notes Toward a Definition of Culture is a touchstone
precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since
vanishedVargas 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
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