Published in 2018 (first published 1964)
338 pages
12 hours and 6 minutes
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. 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.
What is this book about?
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic.
Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world.
It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as, her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.
