| Description |
xi, 865 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 292 |
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Library of America ; 292.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Under the sign of Saturn (1980). On Paul Goodman ; Approaching Artaud ; Fascinating fascism ; Under the sign of Saturn ; Syberberg's Hitler ; Remembering Barthes ; Mind as passion -- AIDS and its metaphor (1989) -- Where the stress falls (2001). A poet's prose ; Where the stress falls ; Afterlives : the case of Machado de Assis ; A mind in mourning ; The wisdom project ; Writing itself : on Roland Barthes ; Walser's voice ; Danilo Kiš ; Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke ; Pedro Páramo ; DQ ; A letter to Borges ; A century of cinema ; A novel into film : Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ; A note on Bunraku ; A place for fantasy ; The pleasure of the image ; About Hodgkin ; A lexicon for Available light ; In memory of their feelings ; Dancer and the dance ; Lincoln Kirstein ; Wagner's fluids ; An ecstasy of lament ; One hundred years of Italian photography ; On Bellocq ; Borland's babies ; Certain Mapplethorpes ; A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it? ; Homage to Halliburton ; Singleness ; Writing as reading ; Thirty years later ; Questions of travel ; The idea of Europe (one more elegy) ; The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (an interlude) ; Answers to a questionnaire ; Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo ; "There" and "here" ; Joseph Brodsky ; On being translated -- Regarding the pain of others (2003) -- At the same time : essays and speeches (2007). Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump ; Foreword by David Rieff ; An argument about beauty ; 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsevtayeva, Rilke ; Loving Dostoyevsky ; A double destiny : on Anna Banti's Artemisia ; Unextinguished : the case for Victor Serge ; Outlandish : on Halldór Laxness's Under the glacier ; 9.11.01 ; A few weeks after ; One year after ; Photography : a little summa ; Regarding the torture of others ; The conscience of words ; The world as India ; On courage and resistance ; Literature is freedom ; At the same time : the novelist and moral reasoning -- Chronology. |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
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Metaphor.
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War and society.
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War in art -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Rieff, David, editor.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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Susan Sontag, later essays |
| ISBN |
9781598535198 (hardcover) |
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1598535196 (hardcover) |
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