Hardcover • 2015 • English

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Name: Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
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ISBN: 9780374123048

By Mario Vargas Llosa

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780374123048

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society

Format

Hardcover

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