{"product_id":"notes-on-the-death-of-culture","title":"Notes on the Death of Culture","description":"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\n\nA provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life\n\nIn 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 Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today.\n\nTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250094747\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250094747.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Vargas, Mario Llosa\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41322720591930,"sku":"DBV.1250094747.G","price":5.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250094747-0.jpg?v=1774978300","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/notes-on-the-death-of-culture","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}