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Author Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- author.

Title Notes on the death of culture : essays on spectacle and society / Mario Vargas Llosa ; edited and translated from the Spanish by John King.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  909.82 VARGAS LLOSA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  909.82 VAR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.82 VARGAS LLOSA    DUE 04-03-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  909.82 VAG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  909.82 VARGAS LLOSA    DUE 04-18-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  909.82 VA    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 227 pages ; 22 cm
Language Translation of: La civilización del espectáculo.
Contents Metamorphosis of a word -- The civilization of the spectacle -- A brief discourse on culture -- Forbidden to forbid -- The disappearance of eroticism -- Culture, politics, and power -- The opium of the people -- Final thoughts.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"New essays attacking the precipitous decline of contemporary culture by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Culture -- Philosophy -- 20th century.
Social problems -- History -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
Culture -- Philosophy.
Social problems.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History.
Added Author King, John, 1950- translator.
Added Title Civilización del espectáculo. English
ISBN 9780374123048 (hardback) : $23.00
0374123047 (hardback)
9780374710316 (e-book)
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