Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colección de ensayos, se convirtió rápidamente en un clásico contemporáneo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre...
Después de Contra la interpretación (1968) y Estilos radicales (1969), en Bajo el signo de Saturno (1980) se encuentran reunidos una serie de ensayos magníficos los dedicados a Antonin Artaud y a Leni Riefensthal cuyo hilo...
Dalton Aarón, Diddy, un hombre anodino, de vida pagada, al que nunca ha rozado el desastre, arto de su vida y de sí mismo, intenta suicidarse. Pero se recupera, o quizá sueñe que se recupera, para emprender un viaje en un tren...
Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power.
'Magnificent.. Her famous seriousness pervades throughout.. What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh documents the evolution of an extraordinary mind. The 1966 publi...
'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'
First published in 1967 Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream Susan Sontagâs second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.
With entries dating from 1947-1963, the first instalment from Susan Sontag's diaries charts her ascension from early adolescence to her early thirties. Unabashed, though thoroughly self-reflective, Sontag's diaries reveal the inner workings of...
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...
It is 1876 and Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, is setting off for the New World. At thirty-five she has decided to start a new life and so, accompanied by her family and entourage, emigrates to the US to found a 'utopian commune'...
Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second,...
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...
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin...