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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa
Translated by John King
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 135
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780571376834
ClassificationsDewey:864.64
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 3 November 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, Observer 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. From one of the world's great literary intelligences, Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - an impassioned and essential critique of our time, with essays on the disappearance of eroticism, on culture politics and power, and the frivolity and banality of entertainment in Western culture.

Author Biography

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.