A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of post-9/11 America, and the work of such diverse writers as Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.
A powerful compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers a series of reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, political activism, the resistance to injustice as an ethical duty, the problems of post-9/11 America, and the work of such diverse writers as Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Sontag immediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essays Against Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, including In America (2000), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven subsequent works of nonfiction, among them On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003). Her many international honors included the Jerusalem Prize (2001) and the Friedenspreis (Peace Prize) of the German Book Trade (2003). She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
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Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump Foreword by David Rieff An Argument About Beauty 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke Loving Dostoyevsky A Double Destiny: On Anna Banti's Artemisia Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge Outlandish: On Halldör Laxness's Under the Glacier 9.11.01 A Few Weeks After One Year After Photography: A Little Summa Regarding the Torture of Others The Conscience of Words The World as India On Courage and Resistance Literature is Freedom At the Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning Acknowledgements
Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump Foreword by David Rieff An Argument About Beauty 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke Loving Dostoyevsky A Double Destiny: On Anna Banti's Artemisia Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge Outlandish: On Halldör Laxness's Under the Glacier 9.11.01 A Few Weeks After One Year After Photography: A Little Summa Regarding the Torture of Others The Conscience of Words The World as India On Courage and Resistance Literature is Freedom At the Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning Acknowledgements
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