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Title: Conversations With Susan Sontag (Literary Conversations Series (Paper)) by Susan Sontag, Leland A. Poague ISBN: 0-87805-834-6 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The philosopher as virtuosa.
Comment: Why do I regard the publisher's remarks about this text being unabridged (read: sanitized to corporate "standards") with such lingering skepticism? Is is a question of having no faith in corporate ethics, or one of needing, however subconsciusly, to deny Sontag's virtuosity of intellect? If the transcribed interviews are reliably authentic, here is a mind quite literally capable of extemporizing sophisticated philosophical discourse. No wonder Camille Paglia attempted to make a cottage industry of ridiculing, belittling, and otherwise attacking this author, who not only anticipated many of Paglia's themes by decades, but who has also shown herself capable of stating in a few laconic phrases what takes Paglia (for all her verbal music) hypomanically-digressive chapters. This is a refreshingly intimate encounter with what "Hurricane Camille" herself has dubbed "one of the great minds of the Twentieth Century", in addition to being far more engaging reading than I had anticipated. Read Paglia's more serious endeavors to exercize your right brain; but read Sontag (this compilation included) to exercise your left. My only regret is noting that certain of the interviews included here were translated back into English from other languages: The smoothness of translation, for good or for ill, gave no clue.
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Title: Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312280866 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374289174 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 21 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420080 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Photography by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0312420099 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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