Styles of Radical Will

Informationen zum Autor Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography , Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004. Klappentext A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", an account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. It features writings on art, film, literature and politics. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that contains some of the important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", an account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. It features writings on art, film, literature and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Sontag, Sontag Susan
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780141190051
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119005-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; PENGUIN CLASSIC
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays