Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963

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 The influential American writer and literary critic's diaries from her early thirties present her powers as a culturally important intellect gathering. Candid about sexuality in a less enlightened time. Includes a preface from Sontag's son David Rieff. Zusammenfassung A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born.

Product details

• Authors: David Rieff, Susan Sontag, Sontag Susan
• Assisted by: Davi Rieff (Editor), David Rieff (Editor), David Rieff (Foreword), Rieff David (Foreword)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780141045191
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104519-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Erinnerungen (div.) s.a. Einzelperson, Sontag, Susan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Autobiography: literary, c 1950 to c 1959, Autobiography: writers, C 1945 To C 1960