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Overview
First published in 1966, this celebrated book—Sontag's first collection of essays—quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.
This is a selection from Sontag's early critical writings, including discussions on such figures as Sarte, Levi-Strauss, Beckett, Antonioni, and Godard.
Synopsis
First published in 1966, this celebrated book—Sontag's first collection of essays—quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.
Carlos Fuentes
Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on.
Editorials
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"Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on."—Carlos Fuentes"A dazzling intellectual performance."—Vogue
"Susan Sontag is a writer of rare energy and provocative newness."—The Nation
"The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well. . . . Her ideas are consistently stimulating."—Commentary
"She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience."—Time