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Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Against Interpretation : And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
Category: Philosophy and Religion
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," "Against Interpreta ...Show more
Antonin Artaud -= Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud; Susan Sontag (ed.)
Category: Culture
Artemisia by Anna Banti; Shirley D'Ardia Caracciolo (Afterword by, Translator); Susan Sontag (Introduction by)
Category: Art | Series: European Women Writers Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was the reviled victim in a public rape trial, rejected by her father, and later abandoned by her husband. N ...Show more
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
Category: Biography Memoir
A "Financial Times" Best Book of 2012 From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, "As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh" documents the evolution of an extraordinary mind. The 1966 publication of ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
Category: Biography
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and domin ...Show more
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
Category: Biography
Volume II of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks from 1964-1980.Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is Harnessed to Fleshchronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at ...Show more
At The Same Time by Susan Sontag
Category: Biography
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and th ...Show more
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
Category: Biography
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she re ...Show more
Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag
Category: Fiction
A collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and the renowned essayist praised as "one of our very few brand-name intellectuals" (The Yale Review). An invaluable record of the creative output of one of the most inquisi ...Show more
Epitaph of a Small Winner by William L. Grossman (Translator); Susan Sontag (Foreword by); Shari Frisch (Illustrator); Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garc a M rquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph ...Show more