In praise of reading and fiction : the Nobel lecture, December 7, 2010
Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-)
In praise of reading and fiction : the Nobel lecture, December 7, 2010 / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2011. - 40 p. ; 21 cm.
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. 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."
9780374175757
2011003835
Books and reading
Fiction---Authorship
PQ8498.32.A65 / E5613 2011
LAS 865 VAR
In praise of reading and fiction : the Nobel lecture, December 7, 2010 / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2011. - 40 p. ; 21 cm.
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. 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."
9780374175757
2011003835
Books and reading
Fiction---Authorship
PQ8498.32.A65 / E5613 2011
LAS 865 VAR