Reborn: Early Diaries, 1947-1964 - Rilegato

Sontag, Susan

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ISBN 10: 0241144310 ISBN 13: 9780241144312

Casa editrice: Hamish Hamilton, 2009

Riassunto

'I intend to do everything ...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ...everything matters!' So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen, in the early pages of this selection from her private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. "Reborn" is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself - all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday life.

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Recensione:

One of the most brilliant minds and sharpest pairs of eyes of her generation (Observer)

I know of no other intellectual who is so clear-minded, with a capacity to link, to connect, to relate (Carlos Fuentes The Times)

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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• Editore: Hamish Hamilton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0241144310
• ISBN 13: 9780241144312
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336