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Indlæser... As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (original 2012; udgave 2013)af Susan Sontag (Forfatter), David Rieff (Redaktør)
Work InformationAs Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 af Susan Sontag (2012)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Ordinarily I like reading journals and diaries, and Sontag's journals lend themselves well to browsing. However, her own comments about "notebook thinking," and aphorisms apply here. I got the sense that even in her private journal, Sontag is alternately talking down to readers or expecting us to keep up in a sort of intellectual obstacle course. (I don't actually know if she intended these for publication, and if she didn't then it would obviously change my view of what she's written here.) But I marked dozens of passages for further thought and discussion. There's some good thinking here, even if you don't come to the same conclusions that she did. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)818.5409Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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So we have 500 pages of such musings, a mixed and often undercooked lot. Through the process, a human portrait is revealed: vain, slothful, codependent. Finishing this last night, I pondered whether Sontag would've approved of her son editing and publishing these writings to herself. The amount of personal information I publish here weekly in the course of reviews and comments made that conjecture ridiculous.
There were times when the thoughts shimmered. Most of it was banal. Lists of films viewed followed by weary exclamations to work harder. The scope of this volume - 16 years - undermines any attempt to distill or encapsulate. I'm not sure what will linger and last after reading this. ( )