by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420411484
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«La civilización del espectáculo» is the cultural criticism essay by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
The essay argues that traditional culture is disappearing amid the rise of entertainment. It analyzes the trivialization of the arts and literature, yellow journalism, and political frivolity as symptoms of that transformation, and underscores the intellectual's loss of weight in public debate.
It is the third edition and belongs to the Biblioteca Vargas Llosa collection; it was published on March 23, 2012.
Of interest to readers of essays, cultural criticism, and sociology, and to those who want to approach the non-novelistic side of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
