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Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition (April 10, 2012)
I am hopelessly addicted to journals and memoirs, and Ms. Sontag. I was startled to discover her legendary ability to critique but her apparent inability to personally write noteworthy prose. A lesson to us all. Find your niche and follow it with the same passion and insight as Ms. Sontag and quit spinning your wheels.
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The second volume of Susan Sontag's collected journals is an extraordinary testament to her brilliance and devotion to the creative life. This volume presents the perhaps the most productive and significant phase of her career as she publishes the major essays that were to appear in Against Interpretation. Here we find a truly voracious artist and intellectual-a thinker struggling with the tumultuous events of her time and struggling to develop a unique voice. Of course, we are entitled to see her lists-lists of authors, of movies, endless lists cataloging the trajectory of her creative life. There are really great and moving passages here-passages of vulnerability and self-doubt. Her personal life emerges as fairly frought and precarious. I was also suprised to see a great paucity of entries detailing her battle with cancer. Her son, David Rieff, has edited this collection. His comments reduce her work to that of a political commentator. I do not fully agree with his judgment that the reflections and entries about her trip to Vietnam are wise and incisive. And her trajectory as a political thinker was actually rather average for her generation. Yet was remains here, I believe, was the life of a real intellectual and artist. A thinker who devoted her undeniable gifts to novels, stories, film, and among the greatest American essays in modern letters.
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Completed reading "As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh"- Journals & Notebooks - 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag. In most cases, find reviewing a text or film a natural act. Over the years have written hundreds of reviews without a second thought. Sitting down to write about Sontag leaves me humble and unworthy.
It was my second year at university where Sontag was introduced; the text: "Against Interpretation", a collection of essays that shot this intellectual into the spotlight revealing her depth of thought and original notions about literature art and philosophy. We were required to write a 2000 word essay on the text, her propositions and ideas concerning literary theory. Well, dug around my files and found "that" essay, believing it might help with the review. The paper yellowing with age and written with my then, trusty electric typewriter - received a "Distinction", equivalent to a "B"; after reading this piece after so many years, I laughed ! Thinking , 'Courage in youth', what did my professor see in this rubbish to give me a "B"? Ah the audacity of my youth! I was wrong, the old essay did not help one bit.
It's true: The older and more you know, one realizes, the less you know.
Susan Sontag was one of the great literary critics of the 20th century - a novelist, filmmaker, and mostly, a life-long student of politics, philosophy, art the written word.
Down the line, might write a review but, at this moment, feeling:
"... not worthy!"
A favourite:
"Intellectuals played at crusaders and revolutionaries only to discover they were all patricians and liberals. (As kids played at being urban guerrillas and settled for being punks.Read more ›
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Her journals are dense and an education in themselves...worth the lists she endlessly makes: what to see, listen to, view and read. A good investment, especially off Amazon.
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