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Farrar Straus And Giroux
Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise Of Reading And Fiction
N/A
2011
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Publisher > Farrar Straus And Giroux
Author > Mario Vargas Llosa
Title > In Praise Of Reading And Fiction
Issue > N/A
Year > 2011
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ISBN > 9781429930789
Pages > 49
Genre > Literary-Criticism Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2011-04
Release > 2026-09-23
Disks > 01 x 0 MB
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On December 7 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fictions power to
inspire readers to greater ambition to dissent and to political action We
would be worse than we are without the good books we have read more
conformist not as restless more submissive and the critical spirit the
engine of progress would not even exist Vargas Llosa writes Like writing
reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life When we look in
fiction for what is missing in life we are saying with no need to say it or
even to know it that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the
absolutethe foundation of the human conditionand should be better Vargas
Llosas lecture is a powerful argument for the necessity of literature in
our lives today For as he eloquently writes literature not only submerges
us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of
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