The Benefactor - Brossura

Sontag, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312420129 ISBN 13: 9780312420123

Casa editrice: Picador, 1900

Riassunto

Autobiographical in format, fantastical in tone, the story of Hippolyte unravels as the wealthy hero tries to construct a life rich in inner and outer experiences, only to find disjunction, in a new edition of the author's first novel, originally published in 1963. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America (winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction). She has also published a collection of stories, several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among them On Photography and, most recently, Where the Stress Falls. Her books are translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

Product Description:

"The Benefactor," Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, 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.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, "The Benefactor "is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0312420129
• ISBN 13: 9780312420123
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288