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

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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… Leer más

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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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