Against Interpretation, and Other Ess..., Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation, and Other Ess..., Susan Sontag
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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

Author: Susan Sontag

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 12 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/17/2018

Synopsis

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

About Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

About Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu

Firește, Susan Sontag nu e împotriva oricărui fel de interpretare. Putem citi în multe feluri, nu toate ne sînt interzise (și nu toate ne sînt de folos). Ea denunță doar arbitrariul interpretărilor alegorice. Din păcate, astfel de interpretări se mai practică și astăzi în școlile de pretutindeni. El......more

Goodreads review by J.L.

“To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.” Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation and Other Essays offers an intellectual back and forth on how to approach art and ends up showing us, above all else, a mind at work. That was really the most fu......more

Goodreads review by Zanna

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.I ended up finding 'Against Interp......more

Quotes

“Susan Sontag’s essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on.” Carlos Fuentes, New York Times bestselling author

“A dazzling intellectual performance.” Vogue

“Her passing remarks on figures as dissimilar as Taylor Mead, Tammy Grimes, the Beatles and Harpo Marx are alive with a sense of what it is like to watch these performers…She rises to analysis that is nothing less than exhilaratingly shrewd…A ponderable, vivacious, beautifully living, and quite astonishingly American book” New York Times

“She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience.” Time

“The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well…Her ideas are consistently stimulating.” Commentary

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