Notes on the Death of Culture - Essays on Spectacle and Society
Verlag | Faber & Faber |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 13,5 x 1,9 x 23,4 cm |
Gewicht | 252 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780571376834 |
Bestell-Nr | 57137683EA |
The searing essay collection by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist and social critic in paperback for the first time.
Klappentext:
§'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, Observer
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, Notes on the Death of Culture 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.
Rezension:
A worldly writer in the best sense of the word: intelligent, urbane, well-traveled, well-informed, cosmopolitan, free-thinking and free-speaking. Merle Rubin Los Angeles Times