Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 (Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963)
수전 손택 | St.Martin's
35,870원 | 20091027 | 9780312428501
SUSAN SONTAGimmediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essaysAgainst Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, including the National Book Award-winningIn America, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven works of nonfiction. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Reborn(1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Rebornends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.
"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks,Reborn(1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old,Rebornends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer.
"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks,Reborn(1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old,Rebornends as Sontag, age thirty, is finally living in New York as a published writer. Susan Sontag immediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essaysAgainst Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, including the National Book Award-winningIn America, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven works of nonfiction. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.David Rieff, the only child of Susan Sontag, is a nonfiction writer and a policy analyst. He has written numerous books and has been published inThe New York Times, The Lost Angeles Times, The Washington Post,andThe Wall Street Journal. The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, Rebornpresents a constantly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1963, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life in New York City. Rebornis a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and thinkers, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with profound challenge of writing itself--all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstances. "Sontag'sReborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, edited by her son, David Rieff, is a fascinating document of her apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice. The volume takes us from her last days at North Hollywood High School to the year that, now living in New York, she published her first novel, The Benefactor."--Darryl Pinckney,The New Yorker "Sontag'sReborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963, edited by her son, David Rieff, is a fascinating document of her apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice. The volume takes us from her last days at North Hollywood High School to the year that, now living in New York, she published her first novel,The Benefactor."--Darryl Pinckney,The New Yorker "Susan Sontag's presence, in essays, interviews, fiction, film, and theater, wove itself so firmly into our culture that when it vanished upon her death in late 2004, one became abruptly aware of the delicacy of the fabric. She was for many a focal point--someone whom readers and commentators enjoyed revering, dismissing, complaining about, being exasperated, or infuriated, or amused, or electrified by--and she was a focusing consciousness; her stature a writer and the value of her work have been, and no doubt will continue to be, debated, but what is beyond dispute is that she suggested, monitored, and even, to an extent, determined what was to be under discussion. She seemed to be at least twice as alive as most of us--to know everything, to do everything, to be inexhaustibly engaged. Her arresting appearance was familiar even to many nonreaders from the photographs that recorded it over several decades and registered the glamou
The first volume of Sontag'sJournals and Notebooksis a landmark, opening up new and exciting perspective on one of the great minds of our time The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, this book presents a constantly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1963, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself--all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstances.Rebornis a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and thinkers.
This first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. "Reborn" is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals.
"A fascinating document of Sontag's apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice . . . What slowly emerges . . . is a sense of Sontag's ferocious will. . . . She wanted to be a writer and would do almost anything to make that happen."--Darryl Pinckney, The New Yorker "A portrait of the artist as a young omnivore, an earnest, tirelessly self-inspecting thinker fashioning herself into the phenomenon she will be . . . Her journal is her true first book, the story of a woman struggling with her consciousness."--Richard Lacayo, Timemagazine "A revelation . . . As do all the best critics, Sontag gave us new metaphors for how to read and see. Fabulously, surprisingly, Rebornshows she used that skill to understand her own pell-mell life."--John Freeman, NPR.org "What's fascinating . . . is that the journal reveals and adolescent and, later, a young woman, in whom 'ambition'--in this case, an overpowering yearning to be surrounded by and immersed in literature and culture--vastly outeweighed, and seems to have overpowered, 'sexuality.' As she herself puts it in the last entry of this journal, 'intellectual wanting' was the equal of 'sexual wanting' "--Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Republic
"A fascinating document of Sontag's apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity, and voice . . . What slowly emerges . . . is a sense of Sontag's ferocious will. . . . She wanted to be a writer and would do almost anything to make that happen."--Darryl Pinckney,The New Yorker "A portrait of the artist as a young omnivore, an earnest, tirelessly self-inspecting thinker fashioning herself into the phenomenon she will be . . . Her journal is her true first book, the story of a woman struggling with her consciousness."--Richard Lacayo,Timemagazine "A revelation . . . As do all the best critics, Sontag gave us new metaphors for how to read and see. Fabulously, surprisingly,Rebornshows she used that skill to understand her own pell-mell life."--John Freeman,NPR.org "What's fascinating . . . is that the journal reveals and adolescent and, later, a young woman, in whom 'ambition'--in this case, an overpowering yearning to be surrounded by and immersed in literature and culture--vastly outeweighed, and seems to have overpowered, 'sexuality.' As she herself puts it in the last entry of this journal, 'intellectual wanting' was the equal of 'sexual wanting' "--Daniel Mendelsohn,The New Republic
"Susan Sontag's compulsively readable early private notebooks have it all--sex, scandal, and scintillation. . . . Her arch self-awareness will make you laugh aloud."--Miranda Purves,Elle"A portrait of the artist as a young omnivore, an earnest, tirelessly self-inspecting thinker fashioning herself into the phenomenon she will be. . . . Her journal is her true first book, the story of a woman struggling with her consciousness."--Richard Lacayo,Time "The assurance and skill with which Sontag expresses herself is also truly striking. . . . One can recognize, in the earliest entries, the author of her essays, which are remarkable for their clarity, poise, liveliness, unexpectedness, and confidence--to say nothing of the range of fact and references that inform and anchor their arguments."--Deborah Eisenberg,The New York Review of Books"A fascinating document of Sontag's apprenticeship, charting her earnest quest for education, identity and voice."--Darryl Pinckney,The New Yorker"An evolutionary history of an insatiable mind."--O, The Oprah Magazine"An electrifying record of Sontag striving to become Sontag."--Donna Seaman,Booklist
