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**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...
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- Author
- Mario Vargas Llosa, John King (undifferentiated)
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374123048
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (202 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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