
Notes on the Death of Culture
Essays on Spectacle and Society
- English
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About this book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
'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.
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Metamorphosis of a Word
- I: The Civilization of the Spectacle
- II: A Brief Discourse on Culture
- III: Forbidden to Forbid
- IV: The Disappearance of Eroticism
- V: Culture, Politics and Power
- VI: The Opium of the People
- Final Thoughts
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright