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Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

Autor(a) de On Photography

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About the Author

Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a mostrar mais collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Susan Sontag

On Photography (1977) — Autor — 3,334 exemplares
Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) 1,919 exemplares
The Volcano Lover (1992) 1,537 exemplares
In America (2000) 1,267 exemplares
Women (1999) — Autor — 663 exemplares
Illness as Metaphor (1978) 650 exemplares
Under the Sign of Saturn (1980) 571 exemplares
Styles of Radical Will (1969) 480 exemplares
Where the Stress Falls (1982) 463 exemplares
I, etcetera (1978) 389 exemplares
Death Kit (1967) 312 exemplares
AIDS and Its Metaphors (1989) 262 exemplares
A Susan Sontag Reader (1982) 250 exemplares
The Benefactor (1963) 243 exemplares
Notes on "Camp" (1996) 208 exemplares
Essays of the 1960s & 70s (2013) 181 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Editor — 138 exemplares
Alice in Bed (1991) 91 exemplares
Debriefing: Collected Stories (2017) 82 exemplares
Don McCullin (2000) — Essay — 77 exemplares
On Women (2023) 64 exemplares
The Way We Live Now [short story] (1991) 64 exemplares
Violent Legacies: Three Cantos (1992) 53 exemplares
Trip to Hanoi (1968) 32 exemplares
Stories: Collected Stories (2017) 29 exemplares
Brother Carl (1974) 18 exemplares
Duet for Cannibals (1970) 14 exemplares
Standpunkt beziehen (2016) 7 exemplares
Vaikuse esteetika : esseed (2002) 5 exemplares
Tradurre letteratura (2004) 4 exemplares
aproximaci-oacute-n-a-artaud (1980) 4 exemplares
Myśl to forma odczuwania (2014) 4 exemplares
Histórias Stories (2019) 3 exemplares
RWWM: Memory/Cage (1997) 3 exemplares
Dernier recours (2011) 2 exemplares
A dama do mar 2 exemplares
Tekster om film (2022) 1 exemplar
Le style camp (2022) 1 exemplar
benefactor, el 1 exemplar
De las mujeres 1 exemplar
Holocaust 1 exemplar
Ruyalarinin Esiri (2006) 1 exemplar
What Have We Done? 1 exemplar
Sontag on film (2016) 1 exemplar
Promised Lands (2011) 1 exemplar
Godard 1 exemplar
Sobre la marcha (2006) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Pedro Páramo (1955) — Prefácio, algumas edições3,263 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,552 exemplares
Ferdydurke (1937) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,389 exemplares
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,130 exemplares
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 774 exemplares
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições736 exemplares
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuidor — 706 exemplares
Summer in Baden-Baden (1981) — Introdução, algumas edições616 exemplares
Under the Glacier (1968) — Posfácio, algumas edições608 exemplares
The Temptation to Exist (1956) — Introdução, algumas edições575 exemplares
Selected Stories (1982) — Prefácio, algumas edições548 exemplares
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (2003) — Preface, algumas edições451 exemplares
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 444 exemplares
A Barthes Reader (1982) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições410 exemplares
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Contribuidor — 354 exemplares
Telling Tales (2004) — Contribuidor — 344 exemplares
The Walk (1917) — Prefácio, algumas edições325 exemplares
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contribuidor — 324 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 313 exemplares
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (1976) — Editor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições310 exemplares
Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Letters: Summer 1926 (1985) — Prefácio, algumas edições222 exemplares
The Disability Studies Reader (1905) — Contribuidor, algumas edições171 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Contribuidor — 160 exemplares
McLuhan, Hot & Cool (1967) — Contribuidor — 156 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Contribuidor — 154 exemplares
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville (1970) — Introdução, algumas edições153 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Plays (2001) — Prefácio — 99 exemplares
Selected Writings of Roland Barthes (1983) — Editor, algumas edições87 exemplares
A Place in the World Called Paris (1994) — Prefácio — 85 exemplares
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Howard Hodgkin Paintings (1995) — Prefácio — 56 exemplares
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind (1982) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Hitler, a Film From Germany (1978) — Prefácio, algumas edições40 exemplares
Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) — Autor — 36 exemplares
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (2000) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Partisan Review (1998) — Contribuidor, algumas edições33 exemplares
Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography (1984) — Introdução — 14 exemplares
Conjunctions: 30, Paper Airplane (1998) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1995) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
American Review 21 (1974) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (2020) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Paras elokuvakirja (1995) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 35 (1977) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Antaeus: Fiction, Poetry, Documents - Jubilee Edition (1991) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
海 1972年05月号 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Críticas

Susan Sontag fue una de las pensadoras más formidables, originales e influyentes del siglo pasado. «Las ideas más interesantes son las herejías», sostenía. Y en efecto: sus escritos descartan lo trillado y se niegan a seguir las líneas partidistas.

De las mujeres ofrece siete ensayos y debates sobre una amplia gama de asuntos: los desafíos y humillaciones a las que se enfrentan las mujeres a medida que envejecen; la relación entre la liberación de la mujer y la lucha de clases; la belleza, que Sontag llama «esa pócima demasiado pesada de tantos consabidos opuestos»; el feminismo; el fascismo; y el cine. En conjunto, estos análisis, reacios a la fácil categorización, muestran no sólo su curiosidad implacable, su precisión histórica y su vigor político, sino la inimitable mente de Sontag en acción.… (mais)
 
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bibliotecayamaguchi | Mar 11, 2024 |
Reading Sontag is an experience of extraordinary clarity and lucidity, which are themselves powerful enough that it is easy to imagine that Sontag is declaring an unimpeachable, gospel-like Truth, and not simply a person sharing her opinions as best she can, because she believes they will be helpful.
 
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localgayangel | 10 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2024 |
American author challenge: Susan Sontag. 1933-2004' writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novel. I read what is mostly a short story collection though some felt autobiographical, some leaned toward essay. I can't say that I liked the short stories because I didn't. My impression is that she was a ferocious reader and was compelled to write.
 
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Kristelh | 1 outra crítica | Feb 21, 2024 |
The Cavalier, an art dealer and British ambassador to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, is obsessed with three things: collecting beautiful and rare pieces of art, watching Vesuvius breathe and rumble, and having a relationship with his nephew's former lover. I know, it's an odd beginning. When the Cavalier's nephew, Charles, grows tired of his mistress he simply sends her to live with his uncle once the Cavalier became a lonely widower. How do you learn to love a stranger? What do you do when that love matures into devotion and passion falls by the wayside? Beyond being a story about relationships and circumstances, The Volcano Lover is also the love story of art, war, and devotion to a life well lived with passion.
There is a cleverness to Sontag's writing. Most of the story is told in the third person with touches of first person narrative sprinkled in. Is that Sontag offering personal tidbits about herself? Who is this off-camera speaker? In the very last section of Volcano Lover the Cavalier, his wife, his mother-in-law, and the Queen all offer first person perspectives on their lives with one another. Both the Cavalier and his mother-in-law are careful to never reveal the Cavalier's wife real name (modeled after Emma Hamilton). No one mentions the hero's name (Lord Nelson in real life), either.
… (mais)
 
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SeriousGrace | 22 outras críticas | Feb 17, 2024 |

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