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Conversations with Susan Sontag

Conversations with Susan Sontag

Paperback

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0878058346
ISBN13: 9780878058341
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Dec 1 1995
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.03
Language: English
Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.

Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne, appointed to teaching positions in English, philosophy, and religion, she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of The Benefactor and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance was published, The Benefactor alone

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