First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of
Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst of culture, author of Notes on
Camp and "Illness as Metaphor," novelist, reviewer, and filmmaker.
It was modernism, and the excitement it created in her, that
"rescued" Sontag from childhood in Southern California and sent her
abroad in the 1950s. Sohnya Sayres looks into the foundations and
directions of Sontag s imposing work and in doing so discovers a
unity of design and subject that Sontag has only recently
acknowledged to have been an ambition all along. Sayres s Sontag is
the "elegiac modernist," committed to a modernism whose high noon
has long since passed. And yet Sayres finds in Sontag s lifelong
indebtedness to modernism s aesthetic an inherent conservatism.
While guiding us through the work of a brilliant critic, Sayres
questions whether Sontag is not herself caught in the paradoxes of
the modernism she herself so much admires. A comprehensive analysis
of the work of a remarkable intellectual, this title will be of
value to any student of American modernism and literary life."
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