Conversations with Susan Sontag
Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.\ Born in New York...
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Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne, appointed to teaching positions in English, philosophy, and religion, she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of The Benefactor and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance was published, The Benefactor alone had gone through twenty-one editions in nine languages.
IntroductionChronologySpeaking Freely3Susan Sontag on Film23Susan Sontag35An Interview with Susan Sontag49Women, the Arts, & the Politics of Culture: An Interview with Susan Sontag57Interview: Susan Sontag: On Art and Consciousness79Does a Photograph of the Krupp Works Say Anything about the Krupp Works?88Susan Sontag: Dissidence as Seen from the USA97Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview106As You Desire It137An Emigrant of Thought143A Life Style Is Not Yet a Life165Susan Sontag: Me, Etcetera...175The Habits of Consciousness183Interview with Susan Sontag192A Conversation with Susan Sontag199An Interview with Susan Sontag206Nadine Gordimer and Susan Sontag: In Conversation215Susan Sontag: The Passion for Words222One Must Defend Seriousness: A Talk with Susan Sontag237AIDS and Its Metaphors: A Conversation with Susan Sontag255Susan Sontag, Hot at Last261The Twentyfirst Century Will Begin in Sarajevo267A Gluttonous Reader: Susan Sontag271Index279
