{"product_id":"notes-on-the-death-of-culture-essays-on-spectacle-and-society-9781250094742","title":"Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eNotes on the Death of Culture \u003c\/i\u003eis an examination and indictment of this transformation--penned by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking 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 all but disappeared from public debate. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45122198306967,"sku":"9781250094742","price":1325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781250094742.webp?v=1767144177","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/notes-on-the-death-of-culture-essays-on-spectacle-and-society-9781250094742","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}