Name: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
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Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780312426712

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Sontag

Illustrated by

Paolo Dilonardo

Anne Jump

Publisher

St. Martins Press-3PL

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9 x 14.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0312426712

ISBN13

9780312426712

Edition No.

Synopsis "At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches"

Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity. . . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same.

Susan Sontag

(Author)

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(Nueva York, 1933-2004) escritora, novelista, filósofa, ensayista, profesora, directora de cine y guionista estadounidense. Inició su carrera literaria en 1963 y se consolidó como una de las principales figuras de los movimientos intelectuales de los años sesenta. Cuenta con gran prestigio, tanto por sus obras como por denuncia de los grandes problemas sociales y políticos contemporáneos. Ha recibido varios galardones, entre ellos, el Premio Jerusalén por el conjunto de su obra en 2001 y en 2003 el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras y el Premio de la Paz, concedido por los libreros alemanes.

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