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Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

Forfatter af On Photography

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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Susan Sontag

On Photography (1977) — Forfatter — 3,334 eksemplarer
Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) 1,919 eksemplarer
The Volcano Lover (1992) 1,537 eksemplarer
I Amerika : roman (2000) 1,267 eksemplarer
Women (1999) — Forfatter — 663 eksemplarer
Illness as Metaphor (1978) 650 eksemplarer
Under the Sign of Saturn (1980) 571 eksemplarer
Styles of Radical Will (1969) 480 eksemplarer
Where the Stress Falls (1982) 463 eksemplarer
I, etcetera (1978) 389 eksemplarer
Death Kit (1967) 312 eksemplarer
AIDS og dens metaforer (1989) 262 eksemplarer
A Susan Sontag Reader (1982) 250 eksemplarer
The Benefactor (1963) 243 eksemplarer
Notes on "Camp" (1996) 208 eksemplarer
Essays of the 1960s & 70s (2013) 181 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1992 (1992) — Redaktør — 138 eksemplarer
Alice in Bed (1991) 91 eksemplarer
Debriefing: Collected Stories (2017) 82 eksemplarer
Don McCullin (2000) — Essay — 77 eksemplarer
On Women (2023) 64 eksemplarer
The Way We Live Now [short story] (1991) 64 eksemplarer
Violent Legacies: Three Cantos (1992) 53 eksemplarer
Trip to Hanoi (1968) 32 eksemplarer
Stories: Collected Stories (2017) 29 eksemplarer
Brother Carl (1974) 18 eksemplarer
Duet for Cannibals (1970) 14 eksemplarer
Standpunkt beziehen (2016) 7 eksemplarer
Vaikuse esteetika : esseed (2002) 5 eksemplarer
Tradurre letteratura (2004) 4 eksemplarer
aproximaci-oacute-n-a-artaud (1980) 4 eksemplarer
Myśl to forma odczuwania (2014) 4 eksemplarer
La nobile tradizione del dissenso (2005) 4 eksemplarer
Histórias Stories (2019) 3 eksemplarer
RWWM: Memory/Cage (1997) 3 eksemplarer
Dernier recours (2011) 2 eksemplarer
A dama do mar 2 eksemplarer
Tekster om film (2022) 1 eksemplar
Le style camp (2022) 1 eksemplar
benefactor, el 1 eksemplar
De las mujeres 1 eksemplar
Holocaust 1 eksemplar
Ruyalarinin Esiri (2006) 1 eksemplar
What Have We Done? 1 eksemplar
Sontag on film (2016) 1 eksemplar
Promised Lands (2011) 1 eksemplar
Godard 1 eksemplar
Sobre la marcha (2006) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Pedro Páramo (1955) — Forord, nogle udgaver3,264 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
Ferdydurke (1937) — Forord, nogle udgaver1,389 eksemplarer
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Bidragyder — 1,130 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 774 eksemplarer
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1949) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver736 eksemplarer
En sommer i Baden-Baden (1981) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver616 eksemplarer
Under the Glacier (1968) — Efterskrift, nogle udgaver608 eksemplarer
The Temptation to Exist (1956) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver575 eksemplarer
Selected Stories (1982) — Forord, nogle udgaver548 eksemplarer
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (2003) — Preface, nogle udgaver451 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Bidragyder — 444 eksemplarer
A Barthes Reader (1982) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver; Introduktion, nogle udgaver410 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
Telling Tales (2004) — Bidragyder — 344 eksemplarer
The Walk (1917) — Forord, nogle udgaver325 eksemplarer
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Bidragyder — 324 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 2003 (2003) — Bidragyder — 313 eksemplarer
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (1976) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver; Introduktion, nogle udgaver310 eksemplarer
Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology (1995) — Bidragyder — 231 eksemplarer
Letters: Summer 1926 (1985) — Forord, nogle udgaver222 eksemplarer
The Disability Studies Reader (1905) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver171 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the 80s (1990) — Bidragyder — 160 eksemplarer
McLuhan, Hot & Cool (1967) — Bidragyder — 156 eksemplarer
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Bidragyder — 154 eksemplarer
Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville (1970) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver153 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987) — Bidragyder — 129 eksemplarer
Mistresses of the Dark [Anthology] (1998) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Plays (2001) — Forord — 99 eksemplarer
Selected Writings of Roland Barthes (1983) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver87 eksemplarer
A Place in the World Called Paris (1994) — Forord — 85 eksemplarer
Science Fiction: The Future (1971) — Bidragyder — 84 eksemplarer
Howard Hodgkin Paintings (1995) — Forord — 56 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (2021) — Bidragyder — 52 eksemplarer
Granta 1: New American Writing (1979) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind (1982) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
Hitler, a Film From Germany (1978) — Forord, nogle udgaver40 eksemplarer
Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (1976) — Forfatter — 36 eksemplarer
The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction (2000) — Bidragyder — 34 eksemplarer
Partisan Review (1998) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver33 eksemplarer
Italy: One Hundred Years of Photography (1984) — Introduktion — 14 eksemplarer
Conjunctions: 30, Paper Airplane (1998) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1995) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
American Review 21 (1974) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (2020) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Paras elokuvakirja (1995) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 35 (1977) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Antaeus: Fiction, Poetry, Documents - Jubilee Edition (1991) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
海 1972年05月号 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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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.… (mere)
 
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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 andre anmeldelser | 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 anden anmeldelse | 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.
… (mere)
 
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SeriousGrace | 22 andre anmeldelser | Feb 17, 2024 |

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