Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power....

The ultimate Camp statement: it\"s good because it\"s awful. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between \\\"high\\\" and \\\"low\\\" culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary......

Reborn is the compelling and frank early diary of Susan Sontag. \"Vivid, exhilarating, often moving ...charts the development of a good writer and an important critic\". (Sunday Telegraph). \'I intend to do everything...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ...everything matters!...

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag\"s searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya\"s Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been......

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of st...

Susan Sontag, 1933 in New York geboren, war Schriftstellerin, Film- und Theaterregisseurin. Weltbekannt wurde sie vor allem durch ihre Essays. Fur ihren letzten Roman »In Amerika« wurde sie mit dem National Book Award ausgezeichnet. Sie erhielt den Jerusalem Book Prize und den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2003....

This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics \"The Aesthetics of Silence\", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and \"Trip to Hanoi\", written during the Vietnam War....

A historical romance, Sontag\"s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag\"s novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love....

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland\"s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and......

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag\"s first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world....

Susan Sontag\"s third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including......

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, \\\"Reading\\\", includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag\"s own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the......

Keiner wei?, warum der Zug im Tunnel plotzlich halt. Der Werbeleiter Diddy steigt in der Dunkelheit aus und trifft dort auf einen Streckenarbeiter, der ihn in Streit und eine Schlagerei verwickelt, in deren Verlauf Diddy ihn totet. Hat er ihn wirklich getotet? Hester, ein blindes Madchen im Abteil, schwort, da? er den Zug nie verlassen hat....

Die Autorin nannte ihre Essays einmal - Fallstudien zu einer Asthetik - einer Asthetik der Moderne. Ob diese Essays von Themen der Literatur, des Films oder der Philosophie ausgehen, sie bleiben nie bei Wertungen einzelner Werke oder Autoren stehen.......

Die skandalose Liebesgeschichte zwischen Lady Hamilton, der Frau des britischen Gesandten in Neapel, und Lord Nelson, dem britischen Seehelden, steht im Mittelpunkt dieses farbenprachtigen Romans vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein Tanz auf dem Vulkan. Ein figurenreiches Tableau am Anfang der Moderne. Ein Triumph des historischen Romans....