Susan Sontag

In America receiving an NBA was a disgrace.

Her essays aren't bad.

>>9240524

Elaborate?

The first installment of her journals from the '40s to the early '60s is incredible, she was pure /lit/.

A lot of On Photography seems superficial to me.

>>9240513
Pretty good. I own "On Interpretation," "Where the Stress Falls," and "Styles of Radical Will," and have read other standalone works. Her essays "On Interpretation" and "Style" were immensely influential on me, articulating the exact aesthetic approach I'd been trying to formalize. The film ones are alright, they're supposed to be directed to a singular aspect of the film and not a complete, substantive review, so good for providing the uncommon insight. The rest are about the same, clever modes of understanding and analysis, but because of this I wouldn't put her among the great essayists of all-time.

>>9240513
>>9240583
Also you'd get a much more fruitful discussion if you wanted to talk about a specific essay or idea of hers.

i plan to read Against Interpretation one of these days. anyone read any of her fiction?

>>9240513
Typical goy-hating Jew, wound up in the pocket of the CIA.

>>9240513
>Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor is cool. There's a lot on the historical perception of TB that I didn't know before reading. It was an "artists illness" and was thought to make one sensitive. Totally bizarre.

>>9240513
I saw Camille Paglia speak last night and she let loose on Sontag.