Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa

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

Mario Vargas Llosa with John King (Translator)

240 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy sociology challenging reflective slow-paced
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A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual lifeIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanis...

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