Susan Sontag

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add...

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 famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as...

Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity and once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world....

This first selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) takes us from early adolescence through to when Sontag was in her early 30s....

This romance, set in 18th-century Naples, follows the fortunes of a British ambassador, the ravishing woman he marries, and the young British admiral with whom she falls in love....

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,”...

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....

In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune....

Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti...

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. In "The Aesthetics of Silence", Sontag examines how silence mediates the...

Una introducción concisa y brillante a la obra de Susan Sontag sobre las mujeres, que reúne sus primeros ensayos, varios de ellos inéditos en español, relativos al envejecimiento, la igualdad, la belleza, la sexualidad y el fascismo.

Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer - more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. Thirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's...

Susan Sontag nos embarca en un intenso viaje desde el centro de Europa hasta la tierra casi virgen de California. Una panorámica espléndida sobre el sueño americano....

Un lúcido ensayo sobre la representación documental e iconográfica del dolor....

Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches...