A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of post-9/11 America, and the work of such diverse writers as Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.
A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of post-9/11 America, and the work of such diverse writers as Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.
Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.
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Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump Foreword by David Rieff An Argument About Beauty 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke Loving Dostoyevsky A Double Destiny: On Anna Banti's Artemisia Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge Outlandish: On Halldör Laxness's Under the Glacier 9.11.01 A Few Weeks After One Year After Photography: A Little Summa Regarding the Torture of Others The Conscience of Words The World as India On Courage and Resistance Literature is Freedom At the Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning Acknowledgements
Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump Foreword by David Rieff An Argument About Beauty 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke Loving Dostoyevsky A Double Destiny: On Anna Banti's Artemisia Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge Outlandish: On Halldör Laxness's Under the Glacier 9.11.01 A Few Weeks After One Year After Photography: A Little Summa Regarding the Torture of Others The Conscience of Words The World as India On Courage and Resistance Literature is Freedom At the Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning Acknowledgements
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