A Susan Sontag Reader

Experience the Brilliant Mind of Susan Sontag: A Curated Collection of Her Most Influential WorksSusan Sontag holds a unique position in modern American letters as our most important critic and a brilliant novelist and short fiction writer. A Susan Sontag Reader showcases the essential unity in all her work, with selections chosen by the author herself to reflect her career accurately and guide readers toward the qualities she prizes in her own writing.Arranged chronologically, this collection draws from Sontag's novels The Benefactor and Death Kit, her short story collection I, etcetera, and her groundbreaking essays from the 1960s, including "Against Interpretation," "Notes on Camp," and "On Style." Selections from her later essay volumes, Styles of Radical Will and Under the Sign of Satury, as well as her renowned work On Photography, are also featured.Reading these works detached from their original books and presented in the order Sontag wrote them reveals startling connections between literary forms and the progression of her themes. An extensive interview offers Sontag's informal insights on her concerns and work, while the previously uncollected essay "Writing Itself," on Roland Barthes, stands as one of her finest achievements.A Susan Sontag Reader is both a self-portrait and a key to understanding the work of one of the most important writers of our time, making it essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American literature, criticism, and thought.