Against Interpretation: And Other Essays ANNOTATION
This is a selection from Sontag's early critical writings, including discussions on such figures as Sarte, Levi-Strauss, Beckett, Antonioni, and Godard.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.
FROM THE CRITICS
Vogue
A dazzling intellectual performance.
Time
She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience.
Carlos Fuentes
Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on.
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