Against Interpretation: And Other Essays - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385267088 ISBN 13: 9780385267083

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1990

Synopsis

The first collection of essays by the brilliant critic and writer to be published in book form, containing her best writings between 1961 and 1965.

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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: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385267088
• ISBN 13: 9780385267083
• Binding: Paperback