Sontag: Her Life and Work - Benjamin Moser Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords: 
Public Activist
 Social Critic
 Writer
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Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: September 17, 2019
Duration: 22:04:29
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.
Who better than distinguished critic Moser, National Book Critics Circle finalist for Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, to write a biography of Susan Sontag? Evidently, Sontag’s son, David Reiff; her agent, Andrew Wylie; and her longtime publisher Farrar agreed, having approached Moser to write this work. Written with special access to archives otherwise ordered sealed for the next couple of decades; with a 100,000-copy first printing.
No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in.
No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.
Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
December 7th, 2019
Thanks a lot, jodindy.
December 7th, 2019
THANKS
December 7th, 2019
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” … the time when Anglo-Americans contracted the Franco-German “Public Intellectual” virus of spuriousness and a lot of damn nonsense.
February 6th, 2020
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/the-all-round-smart-cookie-with-a-tin-ear/
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