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Title: Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0-312-28086-6 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: To Life!
Comment: I'm currently writing a paper that incorporates some of Sontag's ideas in both "Against Interpretation" and "On Style" - the two most polemic of the essays in this collection. It's very dificult, however, to condense these essays down to a couple concepts, or draw a couple of quotes out of them. Each time I read these essays - perhaps because I feel such a connection with the ideas - I find myself underlining virtually half the articles.
The one place I see Sontag going off is in promoting to noveau roman, and the fiction of writers like Robbe-Grillet. For one, writers who try to negate all the content from their work often merely reinforce to the critic the distinction between form and content. And two, a piece of art doesn't need to be experimental to have formal elegance. I think Sontag was promoting too many new wave artists, like Burroughs. Recently she has been writing novels similar to the nineteenth century style, which suggests that she's overcome whatever qualms she may have had with ominscent narrators like Tolstoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Susan Sontag's first bunch of essays.
Comment: This is historically the first delivery of the now world-renowned essays by Susan Sontag. Mrs Sontag considers herself primarily a novelist: and,of course, she has every right to do so, but I have the feeling that her novels do not come near in any way to her essays' quality.
In this batch, which is arguably her most famous one, although probably not her best, you can feel all young Sontag's vigour and fire. She is often far nastier in tone than in her later works. She tears to pieces John Gielgud's staging of Hamlet, Gyorgy Lukacs's literary criticism, calls George Steiner "superficial"(!), and destroys contemporary American novelists (they're obsessed with "content" intended as a discussion of moral issues).
The most beautiful piece in this collection are probably the "Notes on Camp". Camp is something which should not be either too beautiful or too ugly; it moves the "connaisseur" because, through its outdated or timelessly ridiculous exterior, it can be felt as the product of an earnest endeavour, a result of the investment of human passion.
Some other essays are more superficial than accustomed, and in the Preface, Sontag aknowledges that she maybe could have taken away some, which were written as simple reviews for magazines. But we can still find the characteristic quality of Sontag's "writing" (meaning "écriture" as defined by Roland Barthes, for those who follow...); an endless redefining, putting into perspective each word or concept introduced, which means that really everything is left in suspence and subject to caution, pointing towards new research to be done.
Rating: 1
Summary: propoganda
Comment: Susan Sontag is a brilliant propagandist. Propaganda is her forté. With that in mind, and also keeping in mind that she's an anti-white racist, one can read her writings and appreciate the brilliance of the "bait" - what she uses to lure us into her web.
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Title: On Photography by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420099 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420218 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: And, AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420137 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374289174 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 21 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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