New Releases by Susan Sontag

Despite their status as intellectual giants of the twentieth century, John Berger and Susan Sontag’s artistic collaboration – and intense friendship – remains virtually unknown. Published for the first time, To Tell a Story offers a glimpse into their shared history that spanned nearly a quarter-century. From sources such as their eponymous film broadcast, rare personal letters and archival recordings, the composite fragments build a portrait of a relationship that was often lively and challenging, sometimes trivial and always affectionate. Berger and Sontag’s voices echo throughout these pages, riffing off the other as they grapple with their respective concerns. Above all, their conversations reveal a deep reciprocal admiration and an exchange of ideas about storytelling, the self and society that informed their own work.

Qu’est-ce que le ' Camp ' ? Une façon de voir le monde autant qu’une manière d’être, selon Sontag. Cet art de valoriser l’artifice pourrait avoir pris corps pour la première fois dans Les fourberies de Scapin, de Molière, en 1671, autour de la figure de Louis XIV. Mozart, Greta Garbo et sa beauté androgyne, le film King Kong de 1933... tous incarnent la sensibilité Camp – un mélange d’extravagance, de ludisme et de sérieux. Le Camp, en tant que subversion des normes sexuelles, est aussi une forme d’expression et un regard propres aux communautés queers. À travers Le style Camp et Culture et sensibilité d’aujourd’hui, Susan Sontag théorise notre ' nouvelle sensibilité ' et redéfinit la fonction de l’art depuis la révolution industrielle. Premiers textes critiques à abolir les frontières entre ' haute ' et ' basse ' culture, ces deux essais emblématiques comptent parmi les plus influents des années 1960 et ont fait de Susan Sontag une véritable sensation littéraire.

«Se le donne cambieranno, gli uomini saranno costretti a cambiare. Ma non lo faranno senza opporre una considerevole resistenza. Nessuna classe dominante ha mai abdicato ai propri privilegi senza lottare». Uguaglianza, bellezza, invecchiamento, sessualità, fascismo. Ancora attualissimi, i saggi sulle donne di una delle pensatrici piú formidabili, originali e influenti del Novecento sono una chiave irrinunciabile per comprendere la modernità. «Le idee piú interessanti sono le eresie», scriveva Sontag e i testi qui raccolti ne sono la dimostrazione. Sulle donne riunisce per la prima volta i pezzi piú importanti sulla questione femminile pubblicati da Sontag tra il 1972 e il 1975. Pagine seminali con le quali Sontag, come dice Benedetta Tobagi nella splendida prefazione, «dimostra una capacità critica che combina le qualità di una mente affilata e l'attitudine caratteriale a essere sempre e comunque una "scrittrice antagonistica, una scrittrice polemica"». Invecchiare: due pesi e due misure Il terzo mondo delle donne La bellezza di una donna: fonte di discredito o di potere? La bellezza: come cambierà? Fascino fascista Femminismo e fascismo: uno scambio epistolare tra Adrienne Rich e Susan Sontag L'intervista a «Salmagundi»

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so many familiar opposites”; feminism; fascism; and film. Taken together, these pieces—relentlessly curious, historically precise, politically robust, and allergic to easy categorization Sontag’s inimitable mind at work.

蘇珊．桑塔格（Susan Sontag） 經典 攝影理論、攝影史、文化評論名作 所有運用影像創作、拍照、攝影的人必讀！ ★《論攝影》於一九七七年出版，榮獲當年美國國家書評獎 至今仍不斷引發廣泛的討論回響，被譽為「攝影界的《聖經》」。 攝影影像無所不在。它們擁有震撼、引誘人心，或讓人理想化的能力；它們創造一種鄉愁感並讓人將其當成記憶來使用；它們被當成證據來反對我們或認同我們。 ｜內容簡介｜ 桑塔格透過六篇尖銳鋒利的評論，檢視攝影的社會角色。 從「柏拉圖的洞穴」此一古典的哲論開始，桑塔格宛如持著手術刀般精準切開「攝影」的運作邏輯；接著從影像的流派（如現代主義、超現實主義）、用途發展（如肖像攝影、戰地攝影）與特質，談論影像與「繪畫」、「電影」等藝術的異同，直指當代社會的流變與肌理。〈影像世界〉一文則藉由安東尼奧尼的電影「中國」，試論影像與政治控制的社會特質。最後回顧柏拉圖的洞穴此譬喻，回顧影像的形義與現實世界的關係。最後，〈引語選粹〉則宛如萬花筒般，摘錄多則與前文相互呼應的精妙攝影語錄。 全書文字不過分沉重，信手拈來評論攝影史的重要作品，論述精準且歷久彌新。 內容有關攝影的媒體論、攝影作為研究社會的方法論、攝影與其他藝術之間的研究，最終，桑塔格亦是叩問—— 這些無所不在的影像是如何影響我們觀看世界的方式？我們又是如何倚賴這些影像為我們的生活提供現實感和權威性？ ｜專文推薦｜ ★ 郭力昕 攝影評論者，政大傳播學院教授兼院長 ★ 陳耀成 導演及文化評論家 ｜經典讚譽｜ ★ 一本非常重要又具原創性的作品……今日，凡是想深入探討或分析攝影在我們這個富裕的大眾媒體社會中扮演了何種角色，都必須從她的這本書開始。 —— 約翰．伯格 ★ 對過去一百四十年來，攝影影像如何深刻改變了我們觀看世界和自身的方式，提出精采的分析。 ——《華盛頓郵報．書世界》 ★ 沒有多少照片能勝過桑塔格的千言萬語。 ——羅伯．休斯《時代》 ★ 因為桑塔格，我們再也不能小看攝影，它不只是藝術界的主力，更是一股日益強大的力量，影響著我們這個全球化社會的本質和命運。 ——《新聞週刊》 ★ 這個主題最具原創性和啟發性的研究。 ——卡爾文．崔林，《紐約客》 ★ 每一頁都以最恰當的方式，針對攝影這個主題提出重要而激烈的質問。 ——《紐約時報書評》 ★ 《論攝影》不僅是一本論述攝影的經典著作，而且是一本論述廣泛意義上的現代文化的經典著作，一部分原因是在現代社會裏攝影影像無所不在，覆蓋我們生活的方方面面。它不是一本關於攝影的專業著作，書中也沒有多少攝影術語，儘管有志於攝影者，無疑都應人手一冊。 在這本著作中，桑塔格深入地探討攝影的本質，包括攝影是不是藝術，攝影與繪畫的互相影響，攝影與真實世界的關係，攝影的捕食性和侵略性等等。她認為攝影本質上是超現實的，不是因為攝影採取了超現實主義的表達手法，而是因為超現實主義就隱藏在攝影企業的核心。 攝影表面上是反映現實，但實際上攝影影像自成一個世界，一個影像世界，企圖取代真實世界，給觀者造成影像即是現實的印象，給影像擁有者造成擁有影像即是擁有實際經驗的錯覺。 對讀者而言，這本書的豐富性和深刻性不在於桑塔格得出什麼結論，而在於她的論述過程和解剖方法。這是一種抽絲剝繭的論述，一種冷靜而鋒利的解剖。精采紛呈，使人目不暇接。桑塔格一向以其莊嚴的文體著稱，但她的挖苦和諷刺在這本著作中亦得到充分的發揮。 ——摘自〈譯後記〉 「一張照片不只是一次事件與一名攝影者遭遇的結果； 拍照本身就是一次事件，而且是一次擁有更霸道的權利的事件──干預、入侵或忽略正在發生的無論什麼事情。」 ——桑塔格 【桑塔格作品集】 節錄 《論攝影》 On Photography, 1977 《土星座下：桑塔格論七位思想藝術大師》 Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980 《疾病的隱喻》 Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors,1989 《蘇珊．桑塔格文選》 Selected Writings by Susan Sontag, 2002 《旁觀他人之痛苦》 Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003

»Ihre Prosa gibt ein schmerzhaftes Gefühl von Ungewissheit preis.« (New Yorker) – Susan Sontags wichtigste Erzählungen endlich auf Deutsch Es sind Lebensthemen, die Susan Sontag in ihren Erzählungen bewegen: Mit 14 besucht sie Thomas Mann in seinem kalifornischen Exil – mit hinreißender Ironie beschreibt sie die Verletzlichkeit ihres jugendlichen Ichs. Jahre später erfährt Sontag von der AIDS-Diagnose eines engen Freundes – ihre Ängste und Hoffnungen werden zum Stimmenchor des intellektuellen New York. Und lange nach ihren berühmten Essays über Fotografie beschäftigt sie sich wieder mit dem Verhältnis von Bildern und Realität – in der Geschichte von einem Vogel und einem Nachkommen Noahs. Dieser Band versammelt wichtige Erzählungen der großen amerikanischen Autorin endlich auf Deutsch – sie zeigen sie von ihrer persönlichsten Seite.

‘Nog altijd domineert Over fotografie het denken over fotografie. De schrijfstijl is vintage Sontag: trefzeker, stoer en stellig. Ze bracht de angsten en ambivalenties die veel mensen voelen tegenover moderne technologie in het algemeen, en fotografie in het bijzonder, messcherp onder woorden. Zelfs nu kun je amper een column, recensie of boek over fotografie lezen waarin Sontag niet wordt aangehaald – zeker wanneer het over foto’s van oorlog, honger of geweld gaat.’ – Lynn Berger in De Correspondent Over fotografie is een boeiend relaas over wat foto’s eigenlijk zijn, over esthetische en morele problemen waarmee we door hun alomtegenwoordigheid in onze mediacultuur worden geconfronteerd en over de (on)bedoelde effecten van fotografie. Het is een klassiek geworden, baanbrekend onderzoek naar de rol en de betekenis van beelden. Sontag weet het moderne leven zo scherpzinnig te vangen dat kritische vragen niet uit kunnen blijven. ‘Sontag heeft ons als geen ander geleerd na te denken over de rol en het effect van fotografie in onze tijd. Prachtige essays.’ – Trouw ‘Een mijlpaal in de reflectie over fotografie. De opstellen over camp en pornografie zijn virtuoos.’ – De Tijd ‘Over fotografie is het origineelste en meest verlichte boek over dit onderwerp.’ – The New Yorker ‘Elke pagina roept belangrijke en prikkelende vragen op, en bespreekt die vervolgens op de beste, briljante manier.’ – The New York Times Book Review

From one of the greatest prose stylists of any generation, the essay that inspired the theme of the 2019 Met Gala, Camp: Notes on Fashion Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility—unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it—that goes by the cult name of “Camp.” So begins Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “Notes on ‘Camp.’ ” Originally published in 1964 and included in her landmark debut essay collection Against Interpretation, Sontag’s notes set out to define something that even the most well-informed could describe only as “I know it when I see it.” At once grounded in a sweeping history (Louis XIV was pure Camp) and entirely provisional, Camp delights in low and high culture alike. Tiffany lamps, the androgynous beauty of Greta Garbo, King Kong (1933), and Mozart all embody the Camp sensibility for Sontag—an almost ineffable blend of artifice, extravagance, playfulness, and a deadly seriousness. At the time Sontag published her essay, Camp, as a subversion of sexual norms, had also become a private code of signification for queer communities. In nearly every genre and form—from visual art, décor, and fashion to writing, music, and film—Camp continues to be redefined today, as seen in the 2019 Met Gala that took Sontag’s essay as the basis for its theme. “Style is everything,” Sontag tells us, and as Time magazine points out, “ ‘Notes on “Camp” ’ launched a new way of thinking,” paving the way for a whole new style of cultural criticism, and describing what is, in many ways, the defining sensibility of our culture today.

The complete short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant & influential writers of the twentieth century - collected together for the first time Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements.

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day, this unconventional, bestselling historical romance from the National Book Award-winning author of In America touches on themes of sex and revolution, the fate of nature, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love.

Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the groundbreaking essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought. This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.

This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time.

In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays—the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966. As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden—up to 1981 and the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power. It is also a remarkable document of one individual's political and moral awakening.

"Quem inventou o casamento era um torturador astuto. É uma instituição destinada a embotar os sentimentos." Reflexões agudas como essa, entre a amargura e a ironia, fazem parte da matéria-prima destes Diários, espécie de buraco da fechadura privilegiado por onde se enxerga a intimidade mental e existencial dos anos de juventude de uma das intelectuais mais influentes da América do pós-guerra. Selecionados por seu filho David Rieff depois de sua morte, os trechos ora publicados exibem um foco temático irrequieto que se desloca num caleidoscópio de assuntos da esfera pessoal e cultural. A par do seu vasto itinerário de leituras e experiências de fruição artística, presenciamos aqui, em registro confessional, a descoberta adolescente da sexualidade, as vivências como caloura precoce na Universidade da Califórnia, onde ingressou aos dezesseis anos, o breve casamento aos dezoito com seu professor Philip Rieff e as duas grandes relações amorosas mantidas com mulheres na sua fase de jovem adulta. Os Diários nos transportam, enfim, para o denso e rico mundo mental de uma jovem Susan Sontag em plena batalha diária para se tornar Susan Sontag.

'I intend to do everything. . . I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly. . . everything matters!' So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen, in the early pages of this selection from her private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. Rebornis a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself - all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday life.

"Literatura é liberdade", afirmou Susan Sontag pouco mais de um ano antes de sua morte, em 2004. A frase hoje soa como justificativa para toda uma vida de compromisso com o amor à literatura e um ferrenho ativismo político. Ao mesmo tempo reúne os últimos textos da ensaísta e romancista que nunca aceitou separar a estética da ética. O turbulento início do século XXI ajudou a autora a se manter fiel até o fim ao espírito de contestação que ela manifestou ao se tornar conhecida, nos anos 1960. Nas páginas de Ao mesmo tempo, os ensaios literários são obrigados a conviver com textos de intervenção pública escritos no calor dos acontecimentos. Destaca-se a lucidez de Sontag diante dos atentados terroristas de 11 de setembro de 2001 e da prática de tortura na prisão de Abu Ghraib, no Iraque. Mas essa incessante vigilância política nada tinha de antiamericanista. Ao contrário, ela manifesta o amplo cosmopolitismo que a autora declara ter aprendido com a literatura. Para Sontag, seu modo crítico de ser uma cidadã americana lhe assegurava também a cidadania plena na sua almejada "república internacional das letras".

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, who struggled and eventually succeeded in publishing his only book days before his death; to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer, who enlarge our capacity for moral judgment. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the Same Time, which includes a foreword by her son, David Rieff, is a passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers, who always saw literature "as a passport to enter a larger life, the zone of freedom."

"Los clásicos son hijos del tiempo. Treinta años después de haber sido escritos, los ensayos ... conservan toda su fuerza e interés. Y no sólo porque los temas escogidos en cada caso continúan en el centro de la polémica contemporánea, sino porque la mayor parte de las respuestas que propone siguen siendo originales e iluminan aspectos de la realidad intelectual habitualmente desatendidos por la crítica. Escritas en un estilo directo, con el respaldo de una enorme cultura, estas páginas trasuntan, a la vez que una asombrosa sinceridad, una lucidez liberadora. Novelista, cineasta y realizadora teatral, Susan Sontag nos ofrece unos textos comprometidos, frescos, inteligentes y llenos de sugerencias ..."--Contratapa.

Schildering van de passies van een Britse ambassadeur in Napels tegen de achtergrond van het Europese politieke leven aan het eind van de 18e eeuw.

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