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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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- “The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - maki…”Susan Sontag
- “To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?…”Susan Sontag
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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