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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 318 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.
"Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling...
8) I, etcetera
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1978
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays, the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.
9) Death kit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1967, Death Kit-Susan Sontag's classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.
10) On photography
Author
Language
English
Description
Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
Author
Physical Desc
xvii, 235 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, which reflect on the personally liberating nature of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 523 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.
Author
Series
A Delta book volume 0038
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
These essays, which Sontag calls "case studies for an aesthetic," include discussions of Camus, Sartre, Genet, Simone Weil, Ionesco, Brecht, Peter Weiss, Beckett, Arthur Miller, Godard, Resnais, Underground Movies, Psychoanalysis, and Happenings--plus the "Notes on 'Camp'."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 292
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 865 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented collection of the controversial later writings of the greatest and most provocative critic of our time. Susan Sontag was the most influential critic of her time. This second volume in Library of America's definitive Sontag edition gathers all the collected essays and speeches from her last quarter-century, brilliant works whose subjects, from the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq war, and the perverse allure of Fascism to painting, dance,...
19) On women
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 184 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of Susan Sontag's essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--
Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. "The most interesting ideas are heresies," she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 246
Publisher
Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
viii, 875 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to...
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