Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer-more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist chose more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the previous twenty years. "Reading," the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon-Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second…mehr
Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer-more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist chose more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the previous twenty years. "Reading," the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon-Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second section, "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 (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
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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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