The Benefactor - Brossura

Sontag, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141190094 ISBN 13: 9780141190099

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2009

Riassunto

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.

Su questo libro

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'A highly original, brilliant tale of a self-centred, solitary dilettante whose dreams take over his life' New York Post

Hippolyte is a wealthy bohemian with a surprising, violently imaginative dream life. Taking the form of a memoir, The Benefactor is the story of his psychic grand tour through increasingly strange mental landscapes. As Hippolyte tries to make his daily existence conform to his bizarre dreamworld, and reality and fantasy become more and more indistinguishable, will he be able to find peace? Funny, acrobatic, disturbing and profound, Susan Sontag's first book, published in 1963, is a wry pastiche of the nineteenth-century novel and a bold commentary on identity and the imagination.

'Originality, economy of language, brilliance ... There is a Kafka-esque quality to The Benefactor' Newsday

'A major writer ... she can make a real story out of dreams and thoughts' Hannah Arendt

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190094
• ISBN 13: 9780141190099
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288