A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual
authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and
Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known
and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against
Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made
her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was
among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high'
and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown
here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against
Interpretation'.
Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre,
Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction
movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally
published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has
been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of
cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in
Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and
Oxford.
She is the author of four novels - The Benefactor, Death
Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National
Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six
books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its
Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001
she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in
2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays - Susan Sontag
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