Biography of Susan Sontag

Sontag: Her Life and Work

○ 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece ○ Highly recommended by The Guardian, The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Atlantic Monthly, The Oprah Magazine, and others ○ 868 pages, nearly 100 precious photos, the author spent seven years interviewing nearly 600 people, and carefully studying the massive amount of primary data from the "Sontag Papers" at the University of California, USA. This is the most comprehensive, complete, and profound biography of Sontag to date. [Brief Introduction]
As an icon of 20th-century American culture, Sontag is hailed as "the conscience of the American public," her life inextricably linked to the cultural development of the United States and the world. She was both defiant and restless, deified and misunderstood, praised and criticized. She rebelled against the sterility of imagination, rejected mediocrity, embraced critical thinking and aesthetics, and left behind a rich legacy of work. Through extensive research and interviews, in-depth archival materials, and a return to textual interpretation, the author keenly captures the subtleties and hidden spiritual core of Sontag's personality and life, exploring the fascinating private life behind her formidable public persona: the fractured relationships, the physical and spiritual struggles, and the conversations on sex, art, politics, and literature—all of which inspired, shattered, and ultimately shaped her remarkable work, presenting "Sontag" and her life as a metaphor.
【Media Recommendation】
We need Sontag now more than ever, and this biography allows her to continue to live without fear: argumentative, headstrong, often right, always funny, and encouraging us to improve ourselves as we see the best of her.
—The Guardian
A landmark biography.
—The New York Times
Moser, with his confidence and erudition, draws together all the contradictions of Sontag—earnest, passionate, driven, generous, self-obsessed, otherworldly, slow-witted, maddening, sometimes endearing but not entirely endearing—into a biography that perfectly fits her.
—The Times Literary Supplement
A figure as remarkable as Susan Sontag deserves a remarkable book… Moser’s monumental work, at once nuanced and magnificent, is a masterpiece tailor-made for the writer and philosopher who “forged icons and then broke them.”
—The Oprah Magazine
It's already difficult to imagine American culture without Susan Sontag's contributions; it will soon be difficult to imagine Sontag's life without Benjamin Moser's account. A life as significant as Sontag's demands a significant biography. That need is now fully met in this monumental work, and it far exceeds its intended purpose.
—Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours "A stunning, irresistible book, like a brilliant mystery novel (even for someone who knows what's going to happen next!). I can't imagine the need for another book about her life. Sue, Susan, Sontag, Susan Sontag... this character emerges in all her wonderful, terrible, and astonishing complexities. This is it! This is the definitive book about Sontag."
—Sigrid Nunez, author of Remembering Susan Sontag

2022-10-01

译林出版社

868

9787544791724