Best Selling Books by Susan Sontag

In the New York Times Book Review, Christine Schwartz Hartley wrote of the hardcover edition of Images of the Spirit, "Ms. Iturbide''s definition of beauty is complex--in turn violent, spiritual, joyous, tense or tender--and it always has to do with dignity, the dignity of a ritual performed, a bond asserted, an identity worn with pride." Now available in a new paperback edition, this subtle yet powerful book of photographs blends evocative scenes from the many subcultures of Iturbide''s native Mexico with the artist''s own deeply personal, and oftentimes Surrealistic, vision. Iturbide''s work mixes history, lyricism and portraiture, boldly calling to mind Mexico''s photographic master, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, with whom she apprenticed in the 1970s. Iturbide was born in 1942. She continues to live and work in Mexico.

''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.

Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio''s invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. Duet for Cannibals is the result. Frederic Tuten, in Vogue magazine, wrote: "Duet for Cannibals is a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn....Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in a swinish way, fiftyish, arch-revolutionary theoretician engaged in writing his memoirs, is Sontag''s anti- or false revolutionary, an arrogant, self-aggrandizing trickster who blurs together revolution and his ego. Francesca, Bauer''s neurotic, elegantly seductive wife, supports her husband''s mystifications while composing her own. Tomas, an earnest student revolutionary hired by Bauer to catalogue his documents, and Ingrid, Tomas''s impressionable girlfriend, are the fodder for the elder couple''s psychological and sexual feast." With this film Susan Sontag joins the company of writers-filmmakers and offers her own special contribution to cinematic art. Note: This eBook edition does not contain images.

El cancer y el SIDA, como antano ocurria con la tuberculosis, son enfermedades consideradas misteriosas. En torno a ellas los prejuicios, las fobias y los miedos han tejido una red de complicadas metaforas que dificultan su comprension y, a veces, su cura. Este volumen resulta imprescindible para entender esas fantasias punitivas creadas alrededor de dos males tipicos de nuestra era.

"In May of 1968, Susan Sontag visited Hanoi. The report of her trip is neither a political treatise nor a travelogue, but a sensitive observer''s response to a world totally foreign to the Western mind. During her trip, Susan Sontag discovered her preconception of North Vietnam and it''s people had little relevance to the actual situation. By reassessing her own point of view, Miss Sontag creates a startling picture of life in Hanoi"--P. 4 of cover.

‘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

After the death of his wife in Naples, his adopted city, an 18th century English nobleman takes up with the remarkable if uneducated mistress of his nephew and eventually marries her.

Limited Edition. Beautfiul cloth binding. Signed by the author.