Under the Sign of Saturn - Hardcover

Sontag, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374280762 ISBN 13: 9780374280765

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1980

Synopsis

Sontag's most important critical writings of the past decade are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others

About this title

From the Publisher:

In her most recent collection of essays, "one of America's foremost critics" (Washington Post ) discusses the relationship between moral and esthetic ideas.

About the Author:

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. 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. She died in December 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0374280762
• ISBN 13: 9780374280765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203