Partisan Review, Volume 30, Number 3 (XXX; Summer 1963) - contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review essay Is the Reader Necessary? (revised as Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel)

Phillips, William, and Philip Rahv (eds.), Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender (on James Baldwin), Herbert Marcuse, Doris Lessing, Lionel Trilling, Pauline Kael, Peter Selz (on Pop Art), et al.

Published by New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1963

About this Item

Near VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. Contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review essay "Is the Reader Necessary?" (Poague & Parsons B4). This "differs considerably" from the version published in "Against Interpretation" as "Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel." Issue also contains a Stephen Spender piece on James Baldwin. Unmarked copy with moderate overall bending and some corner creasing to back cover.

Seller Inventory # M5676

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Partisan Review, Volume 30, Number 3 (XXX; Summer 1963) - contains the first appearance of Susan Sontag's review essay Is the Reader Necessary? (revised as Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel)
• Publisher: New York: American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued)
• Signed: Not Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Partisan Review