Name: Where the Stress Falls: Essays
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Author: Sontag, Susan
ISBN: 9780312421311

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Sontag

Publisher

Picador

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

366

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x2.5 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN

0312421311

ISBN13

9780312421311

Edition No.

Synopsis "Where the Stress Falls: Essays "

Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first Reading includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, Seeing she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, There and Here Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

Susan Sontag

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(New York, 1933-2004) writer, novelist, philosopher, essayist, professor, film director, and American screenwriter. She began her literary career in 1963 and established herself as one of the leading figures in the intellectual movements of the sixties. She is highly esteemed, both for her works and for her denunciation of major contemporary social and political issues. She has received several awards, including the Jerusalem Prize for her body of work in 2001 and in 2003 the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the Peace Prize, awarded by German booksellers.

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