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

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374123047
• ISBN13: 9780374123048
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"