Styles of Radical Will
$39.77
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
17 August 2009
Summary
Susan Sontag’s second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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 oth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190051 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141190051 |
| Author: | Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘Susan Sontag’s essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments of what is really going on.’ - Carlos Fuentes
‘Susan Sontag’s essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments of what is really going on.’ - Carlos Fuentes
About The Author
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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