Book details

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

The Nobel Lecture

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Edith Grossman

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

$16.00

About This Book

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...

Page Count
48
On Sale
04/12/2011

Book Details

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.”

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374175757

In The News

“The bold, dynamic and endlessly productive imagination of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the writing giants of our time, is something truly to be admired . . . As with any great writer, [he] makes us see clearly what we have been looking at all the while but never noticed.” —Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle on Mario Vargas Llosa

About the Creators

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

$16.00