In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture.

Llosa, Mario Vargas

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

First edition of the author's Nobel Lecture. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Mario Vargos Llosa on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nayon Cho. Translated by Edith Grossman. Uncommon signed. On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lecture is a resounding tribute to fictionâ s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. â 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,â Vargas Llosa writes. â 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 absoluteâ the foundation of the human conditionâ and should be better.â Vargas Llosaâ s lecture is a powerful argument for the necessity of literature in our lives today. For, as he eloquently writes, â literature not only submerges us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of oppression.â . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 150618

Bibliografische Details

Titel: In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel ...
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
Auflage: 1. Auflage