Susan Sontag's "Essays of the 1960s & 70s" (2013)
Des Moines, Iowa, US: The Library of America (book, slipcased, essays), 2013.
8.5" x 5.5" x 1.375" (slipcase); 8.125" x 5" x 1.125", 875 pages, slipcased hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, with insert, ISBN978-1-59853-255-5.
Essays of the 1960s & 70s by Susan Sontag, as published in a slipcased "Subscriber Edition" by The Library of America (Des Moines, Iowa, US) in 2013. No dust-jacket as issued, and including an insert of Susan Sontag and the book. This was also released in a trade edition by Penguin.
This volume includes Sontag's "William S. Burroughs and the Novel", pp. 733-744, in the "Uncollected Essays" section. There are additional minor mentions of Burroughs throughout the book.
Not in Schottlaender.
Contents:
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
- Section I:
- "Against Interpretation"
- "On Style"
- Section II:
- "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer"
- "Simone Weil"
- "Camus' Notebooks"
- "Michel Leiris' Manhood"
- "The Anthropologist as Hero"
- "The Literary Criticism of Georg Lukács"
- "Sartre's Saint Genet"
- "Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel"
- Section III:
- "Ionesco"
- "Reflections on The Deputy"
- "The Death of Tragedy"
- "Going to Theater, etc."
- "Marat/Sade/Artaud"
- Section IV:
- "Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson"
- "Godard's Vivre Sa Vie"
- "The Imagination of Disaster"
- "Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures"
- "Resnais' Muriel"
- "A Note on Novels and Films"
- Section V:
- "Piety Without Consent"
- "Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death"
- "Happenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition"
- "Notes on 'Camp'"
- "One Culture and the New Sensibility"
- Styles of Radical Will (1969)
- Section I:
- "The Aesthetics of Silence"
- "The Pornographic Imagination"
- "'Thinking Against Oneself': Reflections on Cioran"
- Section II:
- "Theatre and Film"
- "Bergman's Persona"
- "Godard"
- Section III:
- "What's Happening in America (1966)"
- "Trip to Hanoi"
- On Photography (1977)
- "In Plato's Cave"
- "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly"
- "Melancholy Objects"
- "The Heroism of Vision"
- "Photographic Evangels"
- "The Image-World"
- "A Brief Anthology of Quotations"
- Illness as Metaphor (1978)
- "Uncollected Essays":
- "William S. Burroughs and the Novel"
- "A Double Standard of Aging"
- "The Third World of Women"
- "Francis Bacon: 'About Being in Pain'"
- "A Woman's Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?"
- "Beauty: How Will It Change NExt?"
- Chronology
- Note on the Texts
- Notes
- Index
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