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In praise of reading and fiction : the Nobel lecture, December 7, 2010 / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

By:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, (1936-)

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 40 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780374175757

Uniform titles:

Elogio de la lectura y la ficción . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 865 VAR

LOC classification:

PQ8498.32.A65 E5613 2011

Summary: 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."

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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."

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