Susan Sontag

At the Same Time (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New Statesman

At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.

The sixteen essays represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers and thinkers.

'One of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer

'Excellent and essential' Financial Times

'Reads like a greatest-hits album - a little politics, something on photography, some lit. crit. - of Sontag's passions' Daily Telegraph

'Sontag's clear thinking . . . shines like a spotlight in dark places' The Times

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141905969
• Artikelnr.: 40064944

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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