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Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays | Susan Sontag
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag.
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Emilymdxn
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I‘ve started reading slower than I have in years what with the pressure of lockdown but I loved this collection of essays and it was a perfect one to read slowly. Susan Sontag‘s brain is just astonishing! How someone so young wrote these essays covering so much of culture and literature i have no idea. ‘On style‘ is something I‘ll be turning over in my head for a long time

Leftcoastzen It‘s weird how I‘m reading less because of the strange head space I get in because of lockdown 4y
Emilymdxn @Leftcoastzen I‘m exactly the same, I thought I‘d be reading constantly but I think having nothing to do makes me desperate to find active things to do to fill the time? I‘m barely managing any reading when I read so fast before 4y
Lindy @Emilymdxn @Leftcoastzen It‘s the same with me. I can only read printed text for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. (Longer for comics.) 4y
BarbaraBB I‘m with you although I am doing better lately 🤍 4y
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Emilymdxn
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Hi everyone! I‘m sorry I‘ve been so inactive, I‘ve fallen off the radar a little bit. Since I‘ve been on furlough and not working everything has gone a bit odd really I‘ve been reading a lot slower. I‘m absolutely adoring this book though I‘ve fallen completely in love with Susan Sontag

TrishB Definitely reading slower too! 4y
shortsarahrose I love Susan Sontag! 4y
batsy I loved these essays! 4y
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shortsarahrose
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Obviously a product of it‘s time (early 1960s), but Sontag at her best (the title essay, “Notes on Camp,” “On Style”) still has bite to it. Her essays on film are also sharp. The essays on theater are the weakest, but even Sontag acknowledged that it the afterword.

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shortsarahrose
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“... the novel as a form of art has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by joining the revolution that has already swept over most of the other arts.”

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shortsarahrose
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I‘m trying out Scribd. Has anyone else used it?

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