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Notes on the Death of Culture Essays on Spectacle and Society
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.
Social ScienceMedia StudiesPopular CultureLiterary CollectionsEssays
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERPicador
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 28 de marzo de 1936), conocido como Mario Vargas Llosa, es un escritor peruano que cuenta también con la nacionalidad española desde 1993. Considerado uno de los más importantes novelistas y ensayistas contemporáneos, sus obras han cosechado numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Nobel de Literatura 2010, el Cervantes 1994 —considerado como el más importante en lengua española—, el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 1986, el Biblioteca Breve 1962, el Rómulo Gallegos 1967 y el Planeta 1993, entre otros. Como escritor, alcanzó la fama en la década de 1960 con novelas como *La ciudad y los perros* (1963), *La casa verde* (1966) y *Conversación en La Catedral* (1969). Continuó escribiendo prolíficamente en varios géneros literarios, como el ensayo, el artículo y el teatro. Entre sus novelas destacan asimismo *La guerra del fin del mundo* (1981), o *La fiesta del Chivo* (2000). ---------- Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist.
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Notes on the Death of Culture Essays on Spectacle and Society
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.
Social ScienceMedia StudiesPopular CultureLiterary CollectionsEssays
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERPicador
LENGTH240
LANGUAGEEN
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 28 de marzo de 1936), conocido como Mario Vargas Llosa, es un escritor peruano que cuenta también con la nacionalidad española desde 1993. Considerado uno de los más importantes novelistas y ensayistas contemporáneos, sus obras han cosechado numerosos premios, entre los que destacan el Nobel de Literatura 2010, el Cervantes 1994 —considerado como el más importante en lengua española—, el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 1986, el Biblioteca Breve 1962, el Rómulo Gallegos 1967 y el Planeta 1993, entre otros. Como escritor, alcanzó la fama en la década de 1960 con novelas como *La ciudad y los perros* (1963), *La casa verde* (1966) y *Conversación en La Catedral* (1969). Continuó escribiendo prolíficamente en varios géneros literarios, como el ensayo, el artículo y el teatro. Entre sus novelas destacan asimismo *La guerra del fin del mundo* (1981), o *La fiesta del Chivo* (2000). ---------- Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, journalist, essayist, college professor, and a former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist.
