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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