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Susan Sontag
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Author : Carl Rollyson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Susan Sontag written by Carl Rollyson and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer's life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag's newly released private correspondence--including emails--and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best. The authors reveal as never before her early years in Tucson and Los Angeles, her conflicted relationship with her mother, her longing for her absent father, and her precocious achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, many accessible for the first time, spark a passionate fire in this biography. The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, and her experience with illness inspired some of her best writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving "more life" at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic and controversial figure.
On Women
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2023-05-30
On Women written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism 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 face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites”; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces—relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag’s inimitable mind at work.
Susan Sontag
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Author : Jerome Boyd Maunsell
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2014-04-15
Susan Sontag written by Jerome Boyd Maunsell and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“My idea of a writer: someone interested in ‘everything.’” This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933–2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics—from literature, dance, film, and painting to cancer, AIDS, and the ethics of war reportage. For many critics, her work captures the twentieth-century world better than almost any other. In this new biography, Jerome Boyd Maunsell draws on Sontag’s extensive diaries to offer a far more intimate portrait than ever before of her struggles in love, marriage, motherhood, and writing. Exploring the astonishing scope of Sontag’s life and work, Maunsell traces her growth during her intellectual career at Chicago, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He discusses her short-lived marriage to Philip Rieff at seventeen, the birth of her son, and her subsequent relationships with women. As Maunsell follows the extraordinary arc of her life, he delves into her literary life in New York in the 1960s; travels with her to Hanoi, Cuba, and China; and surveys her work in Sweden and France in the 1970s, where she turned to filmmaking. Maunsell concludes by examining her miraculous rebirth as a novelist and critic in the 1980s and ’90s after her diagnosis with cancer in the mid-1970s. Providing a full picture of Sontag as a private person and public figure, this concise biography casts new light on this pivotal figure in literary and cultural history.
Regarding The Pain Of Others
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Regarding The Pain Of Others written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Social Science categories.
Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and meanings of images, but about the nature of war, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience. 'Powerful, fascinating. Sontag is our outstanding contemporary writer in the moralist tradition'Sunday Times 'A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering'The New York Times 'A far-reaching set of ruminations on human suffering, the nature of goodness, the lures, deceptions and truth of images . . . in short, a summary of what it means to be alive and alert in the twentieth century'Independent 'Sontag is on top form: firing devastating questions'Los Angeles Times 'Simple, elegant, fiercely persuasive'Metro One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
A Susan Sontag Reader
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1983
A Susan Sontag Reader written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Women authors categories.
On Photography
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-12-04
On Photography written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-04 with Photography categories.
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites'The Times 'A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves'Washington Post 'The most original and illuminating study of the subject'New Yorker One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
At The Same Time
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-12-05
At The Same Time written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Literary Collections categories.
At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag. With a preface by David Rieff. The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her ddath 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 remains one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers and thinkers. 'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New Statesman 'One of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer 'Excellent and essential' Financial Times 'Reads like a greatest-hits album - a little politics, something on photography, some lit. crit. - of Sontag's passions' Daily Telegraph 'Sontag's clear thinking . . . shines like a spotlight in dark places' The Times One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
Susan Sontag
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Author : Michael Aliprandini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Susan Sontag written by Michael Aliprandini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with American literature categories.
Sontag
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Author : Benjamin Moser
language : es
Publisher: Anagrama
Release Date : 2020-09-02
Sontag written by Benjamin Moser and has been published by Anagrama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Intelectual pública, renovadora de la crítica, figura totémica: Susan Sontag retratada como nunca, en una biografía merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2020. Esta es, sí, una biografía de Sontag: el paradigma de la intelectual pública en la segunda mitad del siglo veinte americano; la renovadora de la crítica, que abarcó y valoró (sin necesariamente nivelarlos) lo supuestamente «alto» y «bajo»; la figura totémica, tan intimidante como magnética, presente en todas las conferencias, y también en todas las portadas de las revistas: casi una marca registrada. Pero esta biografía empieza siendo la de Sue Rosenblatt, que comenzó a transformarse cuando a los once años, y tras adoptar el apellido de su padrastro, decidió dejar de ser una outsider. «Solo me interesa la gente que se ha embarcado en un proyecto de transformación personal», escribió Susan Sontag en sus diarios, y en Sontag Benjamin Moser resigue su metamorfosis sin dejar de atender a las grietas por las que aún puede entreverse a Sue: «mi “verdadero yo”, ese ser inerte. Ese yo del que huyo, en parte, cuando estoy con otras personas». Sus primeros textos en Chicago Review; su matrimonio con el profesor y ensayista Philip Rieff, y la verdadera autoría del primer libro de este; el nacimiento de su hijo David, al que lo unió una problemática dependencia; sus temporadas en Inglaterra y París; el redescubrimiento de su sexualidad y sus relaciones más duraderas, con la dramaturga María Irene Fornés y la fotógrafa Annie Leibovitz; y, por encima de todo, la construcción de una carrera cultivada en The New York Review of Books y en la editorial Farrar, Straus and Giroux, en la que sus ensayos señalaron a generaciones enteras qué valía la pena mirar, dónde había que mirarlo y qué implicaba hacerlo en realidad. Y, recorriendo todos los sitios donde Sontag puso la mirada, Moser dibuja también un mapa de los principales debates intelectuales de su época: la oposición a la Guerra del Vietnam, Cuba como promesa, el comunismo, el compromiso feminista o la crisis del sida, pero también el sitio de Sarajevo o la fetua decretada contra Salman Rushdie. Personal, penetrante, abarcadora y guiada por un respeto que no cae nunca en lo hagiográfico, Sontag, que ha sido merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2020 a la Mejor Biografía, recurre a un despliegue de voces y documentos inéditos hasta ahora para constituir el retrato definitivo de Sue Rosenblatt, Susan Sontag y todas las transformaciones que mediaron entre ellas.
Against Interpretation And Other Essays
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Against Interpretation And Other Essays written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Literary Collections categories.
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against 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 equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. 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 - The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. 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. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays, you might like Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times