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This second of three volumes begins in the middle of the 1960s and traces Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world to renowned critic.

Twenty-five years after her classic "On Photography, " Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in the culture today. She once again changes the way readers think about the uses and meanings of images in the world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged--and understood.

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«Una colección sólida y maravillosamente musical que hace de cuestiones literarias y artísticas algo urgente y apasionante.» Booklist

Zoals de geest gebonden is aan het vlees is het tweede deel van de drie boeken die gezamenlijk Susan Sontags nagelaten aantekeningen en dagboeken vormen. Het pakt de draad op waar het vorige deel, [i]Herboren[/i], eindigde in het midden van de jaren zestig. De dagboeken volgen en documenteren de evolutie van Susan Sontag van een zijdelingse participant in de artistieke en intellectuele wereld van New York tot aan het moment dat zij een wereldb...

De essays van de in 2004 overleden Susan Sontag zijn doordrongen van haar scherpe en hartstochtelijke intellect. Sontag wist haar passies, observaties en ideeën op onnavolgbare wijze te verwoorden en behoorde tot de zeldzame groep intellectuelen die van alle markten thuis zijn. Op hetzelfde moment bevat stukken over fotografie, over haar eigen schrijverschap en over schrijvers als Dostojevski, Pasternak en Rilke. Daarnaast analyseert Sontag d...

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Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers.

One of the most interesting and valuable critics we possess' New RepublicSusan 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 counter-romance, alternately hilarious and tragic' Christopher Hitchens, Vanity FairIt is 1876 and Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, is setting off for the new world. At thirty-five she has decided to start a new life and so, accompanied by her family and entourage, emigrates to the US to found a 'utopian commune' in California. When the commune fails, Maryna stays, and reinvents herself again, rocketing to worldwide fame as a th...

Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.

After this feast, I am eager for her thoughts on anything' Chicago Sun TimesSusan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a daz...

Das erste Theaterstück der berühmten amerikanischen Autorin und Friedenspreisträgerin des Deutschen Buchhandels, ein Stück über Frauen und über das Bewusstsein von sich selbst - am Beispiel von Alice James, der Schwester des großen amerikanischen Romanciers Henry James: Alice hat sich in ihrem Bett verschanzt. Die Bemühungen ihrer Krankenschwester und Gesellschafterin, sie aus ihrer Lethargie zu reißen, bleiben erfolglos. Alice zieht es vor, l...

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La autora revela en cada uno de estos textos un aspecto de su infatigable actividad en el mundo del arte, la filosofía y la política.