Ebook: Susan Sontag
Author: Maunsell Jerome Boyd, Sontag Susan
- Tags: Authors American, Authors American--20th century, Women authors American, Women authors American--20th century, Biographies, Women authors American -- 20th century -- Biography, Authors American -- 20th century -- Biography, Sontag Susan -- 1933-2004
- Series: Critical lives
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- City: London;England
- Language: English
- epub
"My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything.'" This declaration by Susan Sontag (1933–2004) seemed to reflect her own life as an essayist, diarist, filmmaker, playwright, and novelist writing on a startling range of topics—from literature, dance, film, and painting to cancer, AIDS, and the ethics of war reportage. For many critics, her work captures the twentieth-century world better than almost any other. In this new biography, Jerome Boyd Maunsell draws on Sontag's extensive diaries to offer a far more intimate portrait than ever before of her struggles in love, marriage, motherhood, and writing.
Exploring the astonishing scope of Sontag's life and work, Maunsell traces her growth during her intellectual career at Chicago, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He discusses her short-lived marriage to Philip Rieff at seventeen, the birth of her son, and her subsequent relationships with women. As Maunsell follows the extraordinary arc of her life, he delves into...