Benjamin Moser

Sontag (eBook, ePUB)

Her Life and Work

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Pulitzer Prize-winning "landmark biography" of the towering 20th century intellectual, exploring the hidden struggles behind the formidable public face ( The New York Times). Named one of the Best Books of the Year byO Magazine ,Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ,and Seattle Times Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money-and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontagtells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the public face: the broken relationships and struggles with her sexuality that animated-and undermined-her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo-and featuring nearly one hundred images- Sontagis the first book based on the writer's restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait-a great American novel in the form of a biography. "[Sontag] was avid, ardent, driven, generous, narcissistic, Olympian, obtuse, maddening, sometimes loveable but not very likeable. Moser has had the confidence and erudition to bring all these contradictory aspects together." - TheTimes Literary Supplement

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ecco
• Seitenzahl: 793
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062896414
• Artikelnr.: 57578189

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Awardand a New York TimesNotable Book.For his work bringingClarice Lispectorto international prominence, he receivedBrazil'sfirstState Prize for Cultural Diplomacy.He has published translations fromFrench, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. A former books columnist for Harper's Magazineand The New York Times Book Review, hehas also written for The New Yorker,Conde Nast Traveler,and The New York Review of Books.

Rezensionen

Moser intelligently brings together both public and private, onstage and off-. His scrutiny of her essays, fiction, films, and political activism is clear-eyed, his analysis of her tumultuous affective life sympathetic... Sontag offers a thoroughly researched chronicle of an unparalleled American figure and the institutions tied to her... deft and sometimes dishy Bookforum