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Product Description: In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation―penned by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today...read more
By John King (trans)

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9781250094742 | Picador USA, August 2, 2016, cover price $17.00 | also contains Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society | About this edition: In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality.

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9781250081629 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 8, 2016), cover price $17.00 | also contains The Discreet Hero

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9786071107312 | 3 edition (Alfaguara Infantil, September 29, 2015), cover price $13.95

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Product Description: Mario Vargas Llosa se adentra en la novela Los Miserables desde la perspectiva del lector agudo, del entusiasta, del creador que sabe cómo se construye una gran obra. Encontramos así los secretos mecanismos que movieron la pluma de Victor Hugo para crear la gran novela romántica francesa...read more

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9788490626214, titled "La tentación de lo imposible / The temptation of the impossible" | Debolsillo Mexico, October 20, 2015, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Mario Vargas Llosa se adentra en la novela Los Miserables desde la perspectiva del lector agudo, del entusiasta, del creador que sabe cómo se construye una gran obra.

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Product Description: Una sátira exquisita de la literatura rosa y de la novela popular que tanto éxito ha tenido en los países de habla hispana, al tiempo que cuestiona la hipocresía, el racismo y el clasismo de la sociedad limeña de la época, con la maestría a la que ya nos tiene acostumbrados...read more

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9788490625675, titled "La tía Julia y el escribidor / Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" | Debolsillo Mexico, October 20, 2015, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Una sátira exquisita de la literatura rosa y de la novela popular que tanto éxito ha tenido en los países de habla hispana, al tiempo que cuestiona la hipocresía, el racismo y el clasismo de la sociedad limeña de la época, con la maestría a la que ya nos tiene acostumbrados.

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9781508849827, titled "La Tía Julia y el Escribidor" | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 2015, cover price $10.12

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Product Description: Filled with endless readings and anecdotes, this fascinating compilation of more than 30 stories takes you on a literary tour of famous authors such as Borges, Fuertes, Proust, and King. This book, without a doubt, is one to savor...read more

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9788492865925, titled "El escritor en su paraíso: Treinta grande autores que fueron bibliotecarios" | Editorial Periferica, March 30, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Filled with endless readings and anecdotes, this fascinating compilation of more than 30 stories takes you on a literary tour of famous authors such as Borges, Fuertes, Proust, and King.

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Product Description: Con la sabiduria del meticuloso observador y la seductora ceremonia del bien contar, el autor nos introduce en la red de perversidad que va enredando y ensombreciendo la armonia que une a la sensual dona Lucrecia, la madrastra, a don Rigoberto, el padre, solitario practicante de rituales higienicos y fantaseador amante de su amada esposa, y al inquietante Fonchito, el hijo, cuya angelical presencia y anhelante mirada parecen corromperlo todo...read more

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9788483833155 | Tusquets Editor, May 1, 2011, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Con la sabiduria del meticuloso observador y la seductora ceremonia del bien contar, el autor nos introduce en la red de perversidad que va enredando y ensombreciendo la armonia que une a la sensual dona Lucrecia, la madrastra, a don Rigoberto, el padre, solitario practicante de rituales higienicos y fantaseador amante de su amada esposa, y al inquietante Fonchito, el hijo, cuya angelical presencia y anhelante mirada parecen corromperlo todo.

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Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians

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9780151001828, titled "The Club Dumas" | Harcourt, February 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians

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9780156032834, titled "The Club Dumas" | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.
9789681903862 | Santillana USA Pub Co Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.95
9780375702280 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Lucas Corso is a bibliophile mercenary in the middle of two searches.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781597774987, titled "The Club Dumas" | Abridged edition (Phoenix Books Inc, January 1, 2007), cover price $23.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787119089, titled "The Club Dumas" | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Lucas Corso's search for the original copy of a book of the occult takes him from Madrid to Paris and into a secret society of antiquarians.

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Product Description: One of the most significant and passionate novels by this acclaimed author. The story develops in different times, looking at reality from different angles that come together with complex narrative techniques and a fluid and precise style. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789681907372 | Alfaguara, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: One of the most significant and passionate novels by this acclaimed author.

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Product Description: This comic novel, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion. a sophisticated Aunt Julia is looking for a new mate who can support her in a lavish lifestyle. Instead, she falls into an affair with her nephew, which chocks her family and community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789681906887 | Aguilar, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This comic novel, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion.

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Product Description: La maestría de Mario Vargas Llosa se hace patente en estas páginas, un impresionante mosaico de situaciones humanas a las que sólo un escritor de su calibre podía dar tanto dramatismo y profundidad En el campamento minero de Naccos en las montañas del Perú han desaparecido tres hombres...read more

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9789507424175 | 6th edition (Planeta Pub Corp, September 1, 1995), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: La maestría de Mario Vargas Llosa se hace patente en estas páginas, un impresionante mosaico de situaciones humanas a las que sólo un escritor de su calibre podía dar tanto dramatismo y profundidad En el campamento minero de Naccos en las montañas del Perú han desaparecido tres hombres.

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Product Description: With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other —our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment. Steering the reader in a vertiginous journey through the collective mind of the Machiguenga Indians, Vargas Llosa expounds, once again, on one of his obsessions: the role fiction plays in the life of humanity...read more

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9788432205767 | Planeta Pub Corp, September 1, 1995, cover price $8.70 | About this edition: With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other —our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment.

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