Sontag her life and work
Auction of souls -- The queen of denial -- The master lie -- From another planet -- Lower Slobbovia -- The color of shame -- The bi's progress -- The benevolent dictatorship -- Mr. Casaubon -- The moralist -- The Harvard gnostics -- What do you mean by mean? -- The price of salt -- The comedy o...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers$
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Auction of souls -- The queen of denial -- The master lie -- From another planet -- Lower Slobbovia -- The color of shame -- The bi's progress -- The benevolent dictatorship -- Mr. Casaubon -- The moralist -- The Harvard gnostics -- What do you mean by mean? -- The price of salt -- The comedy of roles -- All joy or all rage -- Funsville -- Where you leave off and the camera begins -- God bless America -- Continent of neurosis -- Xu-Dan Xôn-Tăc -- Four hundred lesbians -- China, women, freaks -- The very nature of thinking -- Quite unseduced -- Toujours fidèle -- Who does she think she is? -- The slave of seriousness -- Things that go right -- The word won't go away -- Why don't you go back to the hotel? -- Casual intimacy -- This "Susan Sontag" thing -- Taking hostages -- The collectible woman -- A serious person -- A cultural event -- The Susan story -- The Callas way -- The sea creature -- The most natural thing in the world -- It's what a writer is -- A spectator of calamities -- Can't understand, can't imagine -- The only thing that's real -- The body and its metaphors. No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [713]-787) and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 815 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0062896407 0-06-289640-7 9780062896407 978-0-06-289640-7 |