Name: Debriefing: Collected Stories
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Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9781250192769

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Sontag

Publisher

Picador USA

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781250192769

Synopsis "Debriefing: Collected Stories"

A collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and the renowned essayist praised as "one of our very few brand-name intellectuals" (The Yale Review). An invaluable record of the creative output of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power, Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. Ranging from allegory to parable to autobiography, these stories show Sontag wrestling with problems beyond the essayistic form, her more customary mode. Here, she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, and lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance, versatility, and charm. Sontag's work has typically required time for people to catch up to it. These challenging works of literary art--made more urgent by the passage of years--await a new generation of readers.

Susan Sontag

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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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