Against Interpretation - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009938731X ISBN 13: 9780099387312

Publisher: Vintage, 1994

Synopsis

This work is a selection from Susan Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. First published in 1966, the book quickly became a modern classic and has had enormous influence here and abroad. As well as the title essay, 'On Style' and the famous 'Notes on Camp', the book includes discussion of such figures as Satre, Simone Weil, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Artaud, and Goddard.

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Review:

'A dazzling intellectual performance.' Vogue

From the Back Cover:

'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since.

'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 009938731X
• ISBN 13: 9780099387312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304