Sontag: Her Life book by Benjamin Moser
By Benjamin MoserSusan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant, serious mind combined with her striking image, her rigorous intellectualism and her groundbreaking inquiries into what was then seen as ‘low culture’ – celebrity, photographs, camp – propelled her into her own unique, inimitable category and made her famous the world over, emblematic of twentieth-century New York literary glamour. Today we need her ideas more than ever. Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism, Fascism, Freudianism, Communism, and Americanism, forms an indispensable guide to our modern world. Sontag was present at many of the most crucial events of the twentieth century: when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down, in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel and in besieged Sarajevo.
Book details
- Paperback
- 700 pages
- English
- 0141977892
- 9780141977898
About Benjamin Moser
benjamin moser is a writer, editor, critic, and translator who was born in houston in 1976 and lives in the netherlands. after attending high school in tex Read More about Benjamin Moser
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