Bibliograph

Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser

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Sontag, her life and work, Benjamin Moser

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sontag

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057731049

Responsibility statement

Benjamin Moser

Sub title

her life and work

Summary

"No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. Sontag explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated{u2014}and undermined{u2014}her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own."--, Adapted from Amazon.com

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