Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays - Brossura

Sontag, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141190086 ISBN 13: 9780141190082

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2009

Riassunto

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany. There are also highly personal and powerful explorations of death, art, language, history, the imagination and writing itself.

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L'autore:

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. 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. She died in December 2004.

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'After this feast, I am eager for her thoughts on anything' Chicago Sun Times

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany. There are also highly personal and powerful explorations of death, art, language, history, the imagination and writing itself.

'Sontag, more than most writers of her generation, views the everyday business of thinking and feeling as aspects of one another ... she has created a body of work of exemplary merit' Boston Globe

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190086
• ISBN 13: 9780141190082
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224