New Releases by Susan Sontag

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

Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. "Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling considerations of talismanic writers from her own private canon, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Randall Jarrell, Roland Barthes, Machado de Assis, W. G. Sebald, Borges, and Elizabeth Hardwick. "Seeing" is a series of luminous and incisive encounters with film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theatre. And in the final section, "There and Here," Sontag explores some of her own commitments: to the work (and activism) of conscience, to the concreteness of historical understanding, and to the vocation of the writer. Where the Stress Falls records a great American writer''s urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.

A collection of essays reveals the author''s interpretation of aesthetics and morality in film, literature, and politics, and provides a provocative study on pornography

The author relates her theories of literary criticism to the total aesthetic experience.

O amante do vulcão, terceiro romance de Susan Sontag, incorpora contradições no mínimo instigantes. TRata-se de uma história realista, moderna em sua polifonia de vozes narrativas. NEla se agitam personagens históricos desentranhados da fase heróica do período romântico: o final do século XVIII. SIr William Hamilton, embaixador britânico no Reino das Duas Sicílias, sua segunda mulher, Emma, humilde porém belíssima cortesã inglesa guindada à posição de confidente e conselheira de uma rainha, e o maior herói marítimo da Inglaterra, lord Nelson, são os míticos protagonistas desta narrativa histórico-ficcional. A Compulsão de redesenhá-los em escala humana, imperativo tipicamente ensaístico, só fez aumentar a voltagem dramática das peripécias em que se vêem envolvidos. SEm dúvida, temos aqui uma história apaixonante sobre pessoas apaixonadas. "É um livro de mestre, um belo espetáculo: vasto, colorido, interessante, e que faz pensar."Roberto Schwarz"Um romance de idéias passional e muitas vezes radical que proporciona todos os antigos prazeres do romance histórico tradicional."New York Times

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.

Die Autorin Susan Sontag untersucht die Bilder, die wir von Krankheit haben, die mit dem Tod gleichgesetzt und als Verhängnis mystifizier werden.

Winner of the National Book Critics'' Circle Award for Criticism (1977), this is "a brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking of the world and ourselves over the lost 140 years."-Washington Post BOOK WORLD

"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.