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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
NOTES ON THE DEATH OF CULTURE: ESSAYS ON SPECTACLE
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523978NOTES ON THE DEATH OF CULTURE: ESSAYS ON SPECTACLEhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/notes-on-the-death-of-culture-essays-on-spectacle/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1791266/173ad58f-48c4-4126-9a09-59a45745af00.jpg?v=638525669543870000MXNPicadorOutOfStock/Libros/WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.521291NOTES ON THE DEATH OF CULTURE: ESSAYS ON SPECTACLE50169https://www.gandhi.com.mx/notes-on-the-death-of-culture-essays-on-spectacle/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1791266/173ad58f-48c4-4126-9a09-59a45745af00.jpg?v=638525669543870000OutOfStockMXN0FITapa blanda1a Edición20199781250094742_WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.9781250094742_Picador9781250094742_9781250094742MARIO VARGAS LLOSAInglésEstados UnidosPicador