Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society [Audiobook] download free by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Listen audiobook: Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- Release date: 2015/3/17
- Publisher: FABER & FABER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780571300549
- Rating: 7.26 of 10
- Votes: 76
- Review by: Amiyah Bock
- Review rating: 8.4 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/22
- Duration: 3H3M58S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, OGG, WMA, MOD, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV (compression CPIO, ZIP, 7-ZIP, CHM, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 21 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M30S (4.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 the Nobel winner 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 treatise Notes Towards the 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 provocateur, here vividly translated by John King, provides an impassioned and essential critique of our time and culture.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Essays
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 18.98 USD
- Dimensions: 135x216x23mm
- Weight: 381g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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