Mario Vargas Llosa

Notes on the Death of Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wattpad Webtoon Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 210g
• ISBN-13: 9781250094742
• ISBN-10: 1250094747
• Artikelnr.: 43673632

Autorenporträt

Mario Vargas Llosa; Edited and Translated from the Spanish by John King

Inhaltsangabe

Metamorphosis of a Word
1. The Civilization of the Spectacle
2. A Brief Discourse on Culture
3. Forbidden to Forbid
4. The Disappearance of Eroticism
5. Culture, Politics and Power
6. The Opium of the People
Final Thoughts

Rezensionen

A worldly writer in the best sense of the word: intelligent, urbane, well-traveled, well-informed, cosmopolitan, free-thinking and free-speaking. Merle Rubin Los Angeles Times