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Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career "A humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as a fiercely aggressive and polarizing intellect."--Kirkus Reviews Susan Sontag (1933-2004), one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. This book provides the entire transcript of Sontag''s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott''s preface and recollections. Sontag''s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. These hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist."

Bataille''s first novel, published under the pseudonym ''Lord Auch'', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille''s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

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.

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.

"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.

Fünfundzwanzig Jahre nach ihrem Epoche machenden Artikel "Über Fotografie" beschäftigt sich Susan Sontag mit dem Thema Kriegsfotografie: Sie rekapituliert die historische Entwicklung, nennt die Vorläufer der Dokumentaristen des Krieges und revidiert ihre einstige Ansicht, dass der Mensch durch solche Bilder abstumpfe. Im Gegenteil: "Das Bild sagt: setz dem ein Ende, interveniere, handle. Und dies ist die entscheidende, die korrekte Reaktion."

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.

Cultural Writing. Susan Sontag delivered LITERATURE IS FREEDOM as her acceptance speech after receiving the highly prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Past recipients of the prize, awarded annually since 1950, include Martin Buber, Hermann Hesse, Octovio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Chinua Achebe and Mario Vargas Llosa. Among other things this brilliant speech touches on the historical and philosophical roots of Sontag''s fervent opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Bundel bekroonde essays over fotografie en de rol van het beeld door schrijfster, publiciste en cineaste Susan Sontag (1933-2004).

En 1873, un groupe de Polonais, emmené par Maryna Zalezowska, la plus grande actrice de Pologne, émigre aux Etats-Unis et voyage jusqu''en Californie pour y fonder une communauté fouriériste. Maryna, qui a renoncé à sa carrière pour cette aventure, est accompagnée de son fils, de son mari et d''un jeune écrivain amoureux d''elle. Quand cette aventure échoue, presque tous les Polonais retournent en Pologne. Mais Maryna apprend l''anglais et, ayant changé de nom, s''engage dans une brillante carrière aux Etats-Unis. Elle formera sa propre compagnie, traversera les Etats-Unis et aura comme partenaire Edwin Booth, le plus grand acteur américain de l''époque. Ce grand roman, dans lequel se croisent personnages de fiction et personnages historiques, est la reconstitution brillante d''une époque, d''un pays et de l''univers du théâtre. C''est aussi une réflexion grave sur la force du destin, sur la création, sur l''art dramatique et Shakespeare, et sur la mort.