- Criticism, Collected works, History and criticism, Modern Literature
"'Against Interpretation' was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world.
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- Author
- Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Dell Publishing, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385267083
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“The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual.”
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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