At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

ISBN-13: 9780312426712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str.

Susan Sontag; Paolo Dilonardo; Anne Jump

Opis

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 speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and 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. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: "She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity. . . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same."

O autorze

Susan Sontag, 1933 in New York geboren, ist Schriftstellerin, Filmemacherin und Theaterregisseurin. Sie erhielt unter anderen den Jerusalem Prize, den National Book Award, den Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis und 2003 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Sie starb 2004 in New York.