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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780374289171
ISBN: 0374289174
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 21, 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 1077444
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.
"Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling considerations of talismanic writers from her own private canon, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Randall Jarrell, Roland Barthes, Machado de Assis, W. G. Sebald, Borges, and Elizabeth Hardwick. "Seeing" is a series of luminous and incisive encounters with film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theatre. And in the final section, "There and Here," Sontag explores some of her own commitments: to the work (and activism) of conscience, to the concreteness of historical understanding, and to the vocation of the writer.
Where the Stress Falls records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.
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Sontag sure did make a name for herself. I recently read in the biography of Edmund Wilson that he didn't think much of her. Here are gathered a miscellaneous collection of essays from Sontag's days as a critic/reviewer. One loves her willingness to go out on a limb for nearly unknown authors. She was a talent scout more than anything else. The big boys out in Hollywood would have known what to do with her. She could have dug up material for MGM and made a decent living, instead of hanging around ... Read More
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I generally prefer Sontag's longer and more personal essays usually found in her earlier work. This collection is a compilation of essays on art gathered from some of the last years of her life; they cover a wide range of topics, from literature to Italian photography. I felt that the most interesting section was her essays on her solidarity trips to Sarejevo during the Serbs' bombardment, where she directed a production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot; it's a wonderful testament to the universality ... Read More
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My favorite piece in this book is 'Answers to a Questionnaire'-- vintage Sontag-- thinking, witnessing, and finally enlightening everything she must. Despite the self-loathing revealed by a number of American reviewers below who show themselves apparently ready to detest integrity itself, the naked truth comes clear and comes clear! Clear thinking may yet be the last frontier! A worthy argument for such is surely made in the pages of this book. It is even for those who are spiteful without cause ... Read More
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Bravo Susan Sontag- great book, greater writer - her stature is directly proportional to the lengths her critics have gone to character-assassinate her. I now will buy the book! No, I'll buy two.
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Sontag isn't relevant to anything anymore, but her voice is still engaging every once in a while. This collection is mostly odds and ends, occasional pieces, dribs and drabs. Actually, it's more a clipbook than a collection. Sontag remains a curiosity, even if her brainlight has dimmed. And even the worst of her nonfiction is better than her fiction.
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