Susan Sontag.
"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything.'" This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics-from literature, dance, film, and painting to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2014.
©2014 |
Colección: | RB-Critical Lives.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything.'" This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933-2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics-from literature, dance, film, and painting to cancer, AIDS, and the ethics of war reportage. For many critics, her work captures the twentieth-century world better than almost any other. In this new biography, Jerome Boyd Maunsell draws on Sontag's extensive diaries to offer a far more intimate portrait than ever before of her struggles in love, marriage, mo |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781780233291 1780233299 1780232888 9781780232881 9781306839112 1306839114 |