Notes On The Death Of Culture Av Mario Vargas Llosa

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE </b><br><b><br>‘The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.’ Robert McCrum, <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>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, <i>Notes on the Death of Culture</i> 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.</p>