Art is long and life is short, warns Vargas Llosa
Culture: Notes on the Death. of Culture
By Mario Vargas Llosa
Faber, €27
Reviewed by Sarah Gilmartin
As the global financial crash shook Wall Street in September 2008, hordes of tabloid journalists ran about the city looking for a broker who might be about to jump from a skyscraper. This depressing image of humanity is an apt anecdote for the opening essay of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa’s Notes on the Death of ...