Susan Sontag

Broschiertes Buch

Reborn

Early Diaries 1947-1963

Mitarbeit: Rieff, David

Beschreibung

A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born.

Autor

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 473793
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9780141045191
• ISBN-10: 0141045191
• Artikelnr.: 26508624

Rezensionen

Fascinating. One can feel Sontag's mind beginning to ripen and bloom, and the full force of the intellectual originality that would be her hallmark emerging Guardian