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Susan Sontag: discord & desire.(Notebook)(Critical essay)
When Susan Sontag died in the winter of 2004--at seventy-one, far too soon for her powers to have been exhausted or her intellect to have been slaked--she left a memorable and mottled trail. Much of her life will endure in photographs--but cameras, she argued, do not so much defeat transience as render it "more acute." Still, here she is on the back cover of my browning paperback copy of The Benefactor, a first novel published in 1963, when she was twenty-nine: dark-haired, dark-browed, sublimely perfected in her youth. The novel, which reads like an audacious, sly, somewhat stilted translation from the French of a nineteenth-century philosophical memoir, ends with "a ...
- Susan Sontag.(Susan Sontag, an American intellectual)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 8, 2005 700+ words
Susan Sontag, an American intellectual, died on December 28th, aged 71 IT IS...Oprah Winfrey is hailed on national TV as the arbiter of literary taste. Susan Sontag therefore achieved the near-impossible: she was a European-style...
- LET SUSAN SONTAG POINT THE WAY.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot December 16, 2001 700+ words
...WHERE THE STRESS FALLS SUSAN SONTAG Farrar, Straus &...Oprah does. So does Susan Sontag, on a slightly more...to admit her literary taste isn't always mine...ll get me the latest Susan Sontag collection.
- The new sensibility.(critique of writer Susan Sontag)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Kimball, Roger February 1, 1998 700+ words
...expert at having it both ways. --Susan Sontag, "On Roland Barthes" In an earlier...have witnessed is a corruption of taste that is at the same time the triumph...ambiguities of this situation than Susan Sontag, the critic, novelist, playwright...
- Susan Sontag meditates on war, its reality and its representations.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Romano, Carlin April 23, 2003 700+ words
...kitchen table of her book-packed Chelsea apartment, Susan Sontag _ celebrated novelist, cultural critic extraordinaire...institutions raise the standard of what's in good taste or bad taste, my antennae go up. I just think that's a mask...
- Susan Sontag meditates on war, its reality and its representations.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 21, 2003 700+ words
...kitchen table of her book-packed Chelsea apartment, Susan Sontag _ celebrated novelist, cultural critic extraordinaire...institutions raise the standard of what's in good taste or bad taste, my antennae go up. I just think that's a mask...
- Susan Sontag, writer and witness.(Appreciations)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Giles, Patrick January 7, 2005 700+ words
For Susan Sontag, who died of leukemia Dec. 27 at 71, writing was the very heart of...exhilarating endorsement of what had been an underground, largely gay taste, provoked and changed American culture. The essay collection it appeared...
- Sontag's Barthes: a portrait of the aesthete.(Susan Sontag and Roland...
- Magazine article from: Post Script O'Meara, Lucy January 1, 2007 700+ words
...important figure for Susan Sontag. The "besotted aesthete...most preferable to their tastes. Sontag gives here a...directions of "dandy taste" whereby "the aesthete...willful exclusionist of taste," or an inclusivist...writes that "[w]hen taste distributes its plusses...
- Edward Field. The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, And Other Intimate...
- Magazine article from: Post Script Watts, Linda S. January 1, 2007 700+ words
...Edward Field. The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, And Other Intimate Portraits of the...Rollyson. Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2005...pages. $17.95 In a 1984 interview, Susan Sontag shared her opinion that "what seems...