Styles of Radical Will (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141190051 ISBN 13: 9780141190051

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics.

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Review:

'Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments of what is really going on.' - Carlos Fuentes

From the Back Cover:

'One of the most interesting and valuable critics we possess' New Republic

Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics.

'Sontag emerges from Styles of Radical Will as an open and vulnerable intellect, a consciousness in process of transformation ... brilliant and important' The Nation

'She has come to symbolize the writer and think in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience' Time

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190051
• ISBN 13: 9780141190051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288