A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual
authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation
and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's
best known and important works published in Penguin Modern
Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first
collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive
thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write
about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to
give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her
epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'.
Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil,
Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies,
psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally
published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and
has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field
of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was
born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago,
Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels - The
Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won
the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of
stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness
as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated
into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem
Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince
of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German
Book Trade. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays,
you might like Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin
Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue
'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most
intellectual of appetites' The Times
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