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The Benefactor
Susan Sontag
Synopsis "The Benefactor"
The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.
(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.
