Sontag : her life and work /

Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moser, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Auction of souls
  • The queen of denial
  • The master lie
  • From another planet
  • Lower slobbovia
  • The color of shame
  • The bi's progress
  • The benevolent dictatorship
  • Mr. Casaubon
  • The moralist
  • The Harvard gnostics
  • What do you mean by mean?
  • The price of salt
  • The comedy of roles
  • All joy or rage
  • Funsville
  • Where you leave off and the camera begins
  • God bless America
  • Continent of neurosis
  • Xu-Dan Xôn-Tăc
  • Four hundred lesbians
  • China, women, freaks
  • The very nature of thinking
  • Quite unseduced
  • Toujours fidèle
  • Who does she think she is?
  • The slave of seriousness
  • Things that go right
  • The word won't go away
  • Why don't you go back to the hotel?
  • Casual intimacy
  • This "Susan Sontag" thing
  • Taking hostages
  • The collectible woman
  • A serious person
  • A cultural event
  • The Susan story
  • The callas way
  • The sea creature
  • The most natural thing in the world
  • It's what a writer is
  • A spectator of calamities
  • Can't understand, can't imagine
  • The only thing that's real
  • The body and its metaphors.