Susan Sontag

Reborn (eBook, ePUB)

Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Redaktion: Rieff, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience-does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful-I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!"

So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.

Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself-all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466812017
• Artikelnr.: 41055256

Autorenporträt

Susan Sontag; Edited by David Rieff