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In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture Hardcover - 2011

by Mario Vargas Llosa; Edith Grossman (Translator)

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  • Title In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture
  • Author Mario Vargas Llosa; Edith Grossman (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City, NY
  • Date 2011-04
  • ISBN 9780374175757 / 0374175756
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.79 x 5.23 x 0.41 in (19.79 x 13.28 x 1.04 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Authorship, Fiction - Appreciation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011003835
  • Dewey Decimal Code 865.64

About the author

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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New York. 2011. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780374175757. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 41 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Nayon Cho. keywords: Literature Latin America Peru Translated South America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture 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… Read More
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