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(0)Susan Sontag
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.
"Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling...
3) Death kit
Author
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1967, Death Kit-Susan Sontag's classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.
7) On women
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--
Author
Series
Library of America volume 246
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to...
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