Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag (born Susan Rosenblatt, 16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, novelist, writer of screenplays, professor, literary icon, and political activist.
Contents
Works
(in English unless noted)
Novels
- The Benefactor, New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1963, ix+273 pp.
- Death Kit, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967, 311 pp.
- The Volcano Lover: A Romance, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, 419 pp, ARG/epub.
- In America, 2000.
Monographs
- Trip to Hanoi, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, 91 pp.
- AIDS and Its Metaphors, London: Allen Lane, 1989, 95 pp, PDF. A follow-up to Illness as Metaphor.
- Regarding the Pain of Others, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003, 131 pp, PDF.
- Ante el dolor de los demás, trans. Aurelio Major, Madrid, 2004, ARG. (Spanish)
Essay collections
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966, ix+304 pp, ARG.
- Styles of Radical Will, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, 274 pp.
- I, etcetera, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978, 246 pp.
- Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, 203 pp, PDF, ARG.
- A Susan Sontag Reader, intro. Elizabeth Hardwick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, xv+446 pp.
- Where the Stress Falls: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 347 pp, ARG/epub.
- At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 235 pp, ARG/epub.
Film books
- Duet for Cannibals, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970, 129 pp.
- Brother Carl, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974, xvi+174 pp.
Plays
- with Howard Hodgkin, The Way We Live Now, London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, 30 pp.
- "A Parsifal", in Trevor Fairbrother, Robert Wilson’s Vision, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, and New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991, pp 19-27.
- Alice im Bett: Stück in acht Szenen, trans. Wolfgang Weins, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1991. 66 pp. (German)
- Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993, 117 pp.
Edited books
- Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings, ed. Susan Sontag, trans. Helen Weaver, notes Susan Sontag and Don Eric Levine, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, lix+661 pp, ARG.
- A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill & Wang, 1982, xxxviii+495 pp.
Articles, papers, chapters, reviews
- "Notes on Camp", Partisan Review, 1964; repr. in Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader, 1964, pp 53-65.
- "Film and Theatre", The Tulane Drama Review 11:1 (Autumn 1966), pp 24-37.
- "A Note on Bunraku", The Threepenny Review 16 (1984).
- "In Conclusion...", East-West Film Journal 2:1 (December 1987), pp 93-106.
- "The Decay of Cinema", New York Times, 1996.
- "Why are we in Kosovo?", New York Times Magazine, 2 May 1999.
- "A Photograph is not an Opinion. Or is it?", Women, 1999.
- "Looking at War", The New Yorker, 9 Dec 2002, pp 82-98.
- "Regarding the torture of others", New York Times, 23 May 2004, p 24, online.
- "At the same time... (the novelist and moral reasoning)", English Studies in Africa 48:1 (2005), pp 5-17.
- "An argument about beauty", Dædalus (Fall 2005), pp 208-213.
Bibliographies
- Leland A. Poague, Kathy A. Parsons, Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliography, 1948-1992, Garland Publishing, 2000, 445 pp.
- in Chris Murray (ed.), Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, Routledge, 2002.
Interviews
- Evans Chan, "Against Postmodernism, etcetera--A Conversation with Susan Sontag", Postmodern Culture, 2001
- "Art and Consciousness" (Susan Sontag interviewed by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta), Performing Arts Journal", 80 (2005):1–9.
Literature
- Essays
- Toback, James, "Whatever You'd Like Susan Sontag to Think, She doesn't", Esquire 70 (1968), pp 58-61.
- Sohnya Sayres, "Susan Sontag and the Practice of Modernism", American Literary History 1:3 (Autumn 1989), pp 593-611.
- Steven Drukman, "Notes on Fornes (with Apologies to Susan Sontag)", American Theatre 17:7 (2000), p 36.
- Barbara Clow, "Who's Afraid of Susan Sontag? or, the Myths and Metaphors of Cancer Reconsidered", Social History of Medicine 14:2 (2001), pp 293-312.
- Sarah Parsons, "Sontag’s Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography", Photography & Culture 2:3 (Nov 2009), pp 289-302.