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Sontag, Susan was born on January 16, 1933 in New York City.
( The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first nov...)
The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.
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Dalton Aarón, Diddy, intenta suicidarse. Pero se recupera, o quizás sueñe que se recupera, para emprender un viaje en un tren de lujo. Túneles, un guardavías muerto o una mujer ciega esperan al protagonista en cada compartimiento del tren, o de sus sueños, o del inconsciente colectivo en el que la obsesión y el miedo, al ri
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( Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir W...)
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.
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( Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Sus...)
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
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(Las imágenes de la violencia y la guerra se han convertid...)
Las imágenes de la violencia y la guerra se han convertido, a través de la pequeña pantalla, en lugares comunes. Susan Sontag nos descubre las implicaciones y los peligros que esto tiene para la sociedad contemporánea. Ya no podemos ser inocentes, somos testigos. Y este planteamiento desemboca en cuestiones fundamentales: la manera en que las imágenes pueden generar rebeldía, fomentar la agresividad o derivar en apatía; la naturaleza de la guerra; los límites de la compasión y la solidaridad; y finalmente, la responsabilidad individual.
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( "A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," ...)
"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, who struggled and eventually succeeded in publishing his only book days before his death; to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer, who enlarge our capacity for moral judgment. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the Same Time, which includes a foreword by her son, David Rieff, is a passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers, who always saw literature "as a passport to enter a larger life, the zone of freedom."
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Al mismo tiempo / At the Same Time Author: Sontag, Susan Publisher: Random House Mondadori Publication Date: 2008/03/30 Number of Pages: 235 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress:
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( In eight stories, this singular collection of short fic...)
In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays--the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.
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(En 1978 vieron la luz en forma de libro por primera vez l...)
En 1978 vieron la luz en forma de libro por primera vez los relatos que Susan Sontag fue publicando en las revistas más importantes de la época. Muestran a una escritora que se aleja de la cotidianidad y se maneja con soltura entre atmósferas opresivas, que baraja temas como el amor, el conocimiento, la relación con el pres
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(This story, which is largely about AIDS, was first publis...)
This story, which is largely about AIDS, was first published in "The New Yorker". The six paintings by Howard Hodgkin commissioned to accompany the text, are incorporated into the book as a series of pages that fold out.
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( Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collectio...)
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.
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(Estilos radicales (1969), la segunda colección de ensayos...)
Estilos radicales (1969), la segunda colección de ensayos de Susan Sontag, extiende las investigaciones apuntadas en Contra la interpretación a nuevas consideraciones sobre el cine Bergman y Godard, la literatura Cioran, la política la guerra de Vietnam y un magnífico estudio sobre la pornografía, «La imaginación pornográfica», por mencionar algunos de los ocho ensayos certeros que contiene este volumen. «Susan Sontag es uno de los críticos más valiosos e interesantes que tenemos, una escritora de la que es posible aprender continuamente.» Richard Gilman, The New Republic
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( In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a class...)
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.
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( This third essay collection by America's leading essayi...)
This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time.
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(En Bajo el signo de Saturno (1980) se encuentran reunidos...)
En Bajo el signo de Saturno (1980) se encuentran reunidos una serie de ensayos cuyo hilo conductor es la discusión sobre las frágiles relaciones entre moral y estética. Defensora de la independencia del arte respecto a las ideas de sus creadores -'una obra de arte es una cosa en el mundo, no un texto o comentario sobre el m
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( In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a class...)
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is--just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment and, it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed. Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic. These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.
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(This is a sequel to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metap...)
This is a sequel to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metaphor". She extends her original theories to argue that our metaphors for AIDS and its effects may be damaging: they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms that may be unhelpful for sufferers and inaccurate for society as a whole.
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(In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a class...)
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying th...
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( Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern America...)
Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The truth of this is perhaps more evident in A Susan Sontag Reader than in any of Sontag's individual books. The writer selected a sampling of her work, meaning the choice both to reflect accurately a career and also to guide the reader toward those qualities and concerns which she prizes in her own writing. A Susan Sontag Reader is arranged chronologically and draws on most of Sontag's books. There are selections from her two novels, The Benefactor and Death Kit, and from her collections of short stories, I, etcetera. The famous essays from the 1960s--"Against Interpretation," "Notes on Camp," and "On Style"--which established Sontag's reputation and can be fairly said to have shaped the cultural views of a generation are included, as are selctions from her two subsequent volumes of essays, Styles of Radical Will and Under the Sign of Satury.A part of Sontag's best-selling On Photography is also included. It is astonishing to read these works when they are detached from the books they appeared in and offered instead in the order in which Sontag wrote them. The connections between various literary forms, the progression of themes, are revealed in often startling ways. Moreover, Sontag has included a long interview in which she moves mroe informally over the whole range of her concerns and of her work. The volume ends with "Writing Itself," a previously uncollected essay on Roland Barthes which, in the eyes of many, is one of Sontag's finest achievements. This collection is, in a sense, both a self-potrait and a key for a reader to understand the work of one of the most imporant writers of our time.
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( The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first nov...)
The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.
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(This collection of essays contains some of the most impor...)
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics.
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( Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for C...)
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."
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(In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a class...)
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a classic work described by "Newsweek" as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying th...
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(Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag,...)
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag, Susan [Picador, 200...
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(Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain ...)
Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is.
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(Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag,...)
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag, Susan [Picador, 200...
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(Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain ...)
Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is.
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Sontag, Susan was born on January 16, 1933 in New York City.
Bachelor, University Chicago, 1951. Master of Arts in English, Harvard University, 1954. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955.
Duet for Cannibals 1969, Brother Carl 1971, Promised Lands 1974, Unguided Tour 1983. Instructor English University Connecticut, Storrs, 1953-1954. Editor Commentary, New York City, 1959. Lecturer philosophy City College, 1959-1960, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, 1959-1960.
Instructor department religion Columbia University, New York City, 1960-1964. Writer in residence Rutgers University, 1964-1965.
(Estilos radicales (1969), la segunda colección de ensayos...)
( Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir W...)
(This collection of essays contains some of the most impor...)
( Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collectio...)
( This third essay collection by America's leading essayi...)
( "A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," ...)
(Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain ...)
(Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain ...)
(En Bajo el signo de Saturno (1980) se encuentran reunidos...)
( Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Sus...)
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(En 1978 vieron la luz en forma de libro por primera vez l...)
( In eight stories, this singular collection of short fic...)
("sensitive observer's response to a world totally foreign...)
(In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a class...)
(In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor," a class...)
( In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a class...)
( In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a class...)
( The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first nov...)
( The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first nov...)
(Las imágenes de la violencia y la guerra se han convertid...)
(This story, which is largely about AIDS, was first publis...)
(Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag,...)
(Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Sontag,...)
(Literary Studies, Womens Studies, Sexual Studies, Gender ...)
( Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern America...)
( Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for C...)
(This is a sequel to Susan Sontag's book "Illness as Metap...)
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Author: (novels) The Benefactor, 1963, Death Kit, 1967, The Volcano Lover: A Romance, 1992, In America (National Book award 2000), Where the Stress Falls, 2001, Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (public posthumously), 2007. (plays) Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes, 1993. (stories) I, Etcetera, 1978, The Way We Live Now, 1991.(essays) Against Interpretation, 1966 (Mat. Book award nomination 1966), Styles of Radical Will, 1969, Trip to Hanoi, 1969, On Photography, 1977 (National Book Critics Circle award for criticism 1978), Illness as Metaphor, 1978, Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980, AIDS and Its Metaphors, 1989. (anthology) A Susan Sontag Reader, 1982.Screenwriter, director: (films) Duet for Cannibals, 1969, Brother Carl, 1971. Director: (films) Promised Lands, 1974, Unguided Tour, 1983. Editor, author of introduction: Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings, 1976, A Roland Barthes Reader, 1982, Danilo Kis's Homo Poeticus: Essays & Interviews, 1995.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences (elected 1993), American Academy Arts and Letters (Arts and Letters award 1976), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (president American Center 1987-1989).
Married Philip Rieff, 1950 (divorced 1958). 1 son, David.