Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

ISBN-13: 9780141190082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Susan Sontag

Opis

In this third collection of essays, the author discusses the relationship between moral and aesthetic ideas. The book brings together her most important critical writing from 1972-80 on subjects ranging from Walter Benjamin to Antonin Artaud.

O autorze

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She is also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.