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100 1 _aVargas Llosa, Mario,
_d1936-2025
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240 1 0 _aCivilización del espectáculo.
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245 1 0 _aNotes on the death of culture :
_bessays on spectacle and society /
_cMario Vargas Llosa ; edited and translated from the Spanish by John King.
263 _a1506
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2015.
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified] :
_b[Publisher not identified],
_c2015.
300 _a126pages 22cm
336 _atext
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520 _a"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 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. 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. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa, here vividly translated by John King, provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"New essays attacking the precipitous decline of contemporary culture by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa"--
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650 0 _aCivilization, Modern
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650 0 _aCulture
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650 0 _aSocial problems
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650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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700 1 _aKing, John,
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