In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

Vargas Llosa, Mario

ISBN 10: 0374175756 ISBN 13: 9780374175757

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FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, full number line to 1) New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. NEW, Unread. Dust Jacket Fine in Mylar Protective Cover, no wear, no tears, not price clipped ($16.00). Text Clean, no remainder mark. Not ex-library. This is the English Translation (by Edith Grossman) of Mario Vargas Llosa's Nobel Acceptance Speech on December 7, 2010. Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

2011

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0374175756

ISBN 13

9780374175757

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Hardcover

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First American Edition, First Printing.

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Fine

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Fine

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lecture is a resounding tribute to fiction’s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. “We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist,” Vargas Llosa writes. “Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute—the foundation of the human condition—and should be better.” Vargas Llosa’s lecture is a powerful argument for the necessity of literature in our lives today. For, as he eloquently writes, “literature not only submerges us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of oppression.”

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Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.

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