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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Against Interpretation: And Other Essaysby Susan Sontag
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in l966, it has never gone out of print, and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought. This edition has a new Afterword, in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism, and against ethical shallowness and indifference. Review:"Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on." (Carlos Fuentes) Review:"She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience." (Time) Review:"A dazzling intellectual performance." (Vogue) Review:"Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on."--Carlos Fuentes "A dazzling intellectual performance."--Vogue "Susan Sontag is a writer of rare energy and provocative newness."--The Nation "The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well. . . . Her ideas are consistently stimulating."--Commentary "She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience."--Time Synopsis: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 Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag. About the AuthorSusan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; I, etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays; and five works of nonfiction, among them On Photography, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award for criticism, and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. Table of ContentsAgainst interpretation On style The artist as exemplary sufferer Simone Weil Camus' Notebooks Michel Leiris' Manhood The anthropologist as hero The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs Sartre's Saint Genet Nathalie Sarraute and the novel Ionesco Reflections on The Deputy The death of tragedy, Going to theater, etc. Marat / Sade / Artaud Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson Godard's Vivre Sa Vie The imagination of disaster Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures Resnais' Muriel A note on novels and films Piety without content Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition Notes on "Camp" One culture and the new sensibility Afterword: Thirty Years Later What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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