Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado…mehr
Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, "Seeing" she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, "There and Here" Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Reading A Poet's Prose Where the Stress Falls Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis A Mind in Mourning The Wisdom Project Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes Walser's Voice Danilo Ki Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke Pedro Páramo DQ A Letter to Borges Seeing A Century of Cinema Novel into Film: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz A Note on Bunraku A Place for Fantasy The Pleasure of the Image About Hodgkin A Lexicon for Available Light In Memory of Their Feelings Dancer and the Dance Lincoln Kirstein Wagner's Fluids An Ecstasy of Lament One Hundred Years of Italian Photography On Bellocq Borland's Babies Certain Mapplethorpes A Photograph is Not an Opinion. Or Is It? There and Here Homage to Halliburton Singleness Writing As Reading Thirty Years Later . . . Questions of Travel The Idea of Europe (One More Elegy) The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (An Interlude) Answers to a Questionnaire Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo "There" and "Here" Joseph Brodsky On Being Translated Acknowledgments
Reading A Poet's Prose Where the Stress Falls Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis A Mind in Mourning The Wisdom Project Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes Walser's Voice Danilo Ki Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke Pedro Páramo DQ A Letter to Borges Seeing A Century of Cinema Novel into Film: Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz A Note on Bunraku A Place for Fantasy The Pleasure of the Image About Hodgkin A Lexicon for Available Light In Memory of Their Feelings Dancer and the Dance Lincoln Kirstein Wagner's Fluids An Ecstasy of Lament One Hundred Years of Italian Photography On Bellocq Borland's Babies Certain Mapplethorpes A Photograph is Not an Opinion. Or Is It? There and Here Homage to Halliburton Singleness Writing As Reading Thirty Years Later . . . Questions of Travel The Idea of Europe (One More Elegy) The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (An Interlude) Answers to a Questionnaire Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo "There" and "Here" Joseph Brodsky On Being Translated Acknowledgments
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