- Modern Arts, French literature, History and criticism, National socialism
Overview: In her most recent collection of essays, "one of America's foremost critics" (Washington Post) discusses the relationship between moral and esthetic ideas. A collection of essays on Paul Goodman, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Roland Barthes, Elias Canetti, and Leni Riefenstahl.
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Character-led, prestige, spare and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Susan Sontag
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Vintage Books, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394747422
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Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include *On Photography*, *Against Interpretation*, *Styles of Radical Will*, *The Way We Live Now*, *Illness as Metaphor*, *Regarding the Pain of Others*, *The Volcano Lover*, and *In America*. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, h
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