Notes on the Death of Culture
Essays on Spectacle and Society
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual lifeIn 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 aime…
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Weitere Autoren: King, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-71031-6
- EAN: 9780374710316
- Produktnummer: 22456230
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 335 KB
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Mario Vargas Llosa; Edited and Translated from the Spanish by John King
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