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About Susan Sontag
American writer and critic
Susan Sontag was an American writer and critic. She worked mainly in essays, and also wrote novels. Her first major work was the essay "Notes on 'Camp'" in 1964. She is best known for critical books such as Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the short story "The Way We Live Now" and the novels The Volcano Lover and In America. Her work often explored culture, images, and the experience of illness and suffering.
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- “For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything…”Susan Sontag
- “No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret after…”Susan Sontag
- “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”Susan Sontag
- “The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematic…”Susan Sontag
Explore Longing
- “When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it…”Jane Urquhart
- “Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivat…”Mary DeTurris Poust
- “One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma…”Ramesh Menon
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Books by Susan Sontag
On Photography
2001
Regarding the Pain of Others
2017
Against Interpretation
2001
Illness as metaphor
1978
Death kit
2002