Against Interpretation and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9780141190068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Susan Sontag

Opis

This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', the book includes discussion of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil and Genet.

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.