by Mario Vargas Llosa · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490625590
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In this essay, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the transformation of contemporary culture, where entertainment and frivolity have gained ground, relegating reflection and critical thinking to the background. The author examines how the trivialization of art, literature, and sensationalist journalism contribute to a society of spectacle, where fun becomes an end in itself, to the detriment of deeper and more meaningful values. Vargas Llosa invites us to reflect on the role of culture in today's society and to question the values that support it.
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".
