Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

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Andrew Daily, August 5, 2008 (view all comments by Andrew Daily)
Of Sontag's work, her collection "Against Interpretation" and the long essay "On Photography" are the most popular. For my money, however, "Under the Sign of Saturn" contains her most brilliant work.

From the opening essay - ostensibly about Paul Goodman - in which she extols the virtues of solitude and hard thinking, through a penetrating essay on the fetishism of fascism, on to a superb encomium to Roland Barthes, every essay sparkles with Sontag's characteristic wit and insight.

This volume also contains one of the single best essays (alongside Hannah Arendt's introduction to "Illumination") on the much-celebrated Walter Benjamin.

And, as is the case with all her work, Sontag unfolds difficult ideas in clear and direct prose.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780312420086

Author:

Sontag, Susan

Publisher:

Picador USA

Location:

New York

Subject:

General

Subject:

Essays

Subject:

History, modern

Subject:

20th century

Subject:

Arts, Modern

Subject:

History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

Subject:

Arts, Modern -- 20th century.

Subject:

Art - General

Subject:

Art-Theory and Criticism

Copyright:

2002

Edition Number:

1st Picador USA ed.

Edition Description:

Picador USA

Series Volume:

Bd. 4

Publication Date:

20021131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

8.42x6.00x.61 in. .45 lbs.