At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches - Softcover

Sontag, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141031689 ISBN 13: 9780141031682

Verlag: Penguin, 2008

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'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New Statesman

At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.

The sixteen essays represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's preeminent writers and thinkers.

'One of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer

'Excellent and essential' Financial Times

'Reads like a greatest-hits album - a little politics, something on photography, some lit. crit. - of Sontag's passions' Daily Telegraph

'Sontag's clear thinking . . . shines like a spotlight in dark places' The Times

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She is also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141031689
• ISBN 13: 9780141031682
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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