Ebook {Epub PDF} I Etcetera by Susan Sontag

ny reader familiar with the critical pronouncements of Susan Sontag in "Against Interpretation" and "Styles of Radical Will" (especially the essay on "The Aesthetics of Silence") will be prepared for the fact that her short stories would not have been accepted as such by Poe, Maupassant, Hemingway, Joyce (at least the Joyce of "Dubliners"), Chekhov, Lawrence or even Kafka. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for I, Etcetera: Stories by Susan Sontag (, Trade Paperback, Revised edition) at the best online .  · Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses.” —Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times “The eight stories in I, etcetera reflect a vital and restless imagination cooking away in several directions There is an abundance of those startling ironies .

by Susan Sontag ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, "Look at all this stuff I've got in my head: rockets and Venetian churches, David Bowie and Diderot, nuoc roam and Big Macs, sunglasses and orgasms." With all that stuff in her formidable head—and her essay-ish turn of mind—Sontag's fiction isn't going to be like anyone else's; and it certainly. 51 I, etcetera by Susan Sontag (Farrar, Straus Giroux; pp.; $) Martin Green The photograph of the author on the dust jacket shows her booted and jeaned, glamorously greying, and loung-. I, etcetera. by. Susan Sontag. · Rating details · ratings · 61 reviews. In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in.

I, etcetera is a collection of short stories by Susan Sontag. Contents “Project for a trip to China” “Debriefing” “American spirits” “The dummy” “Old complaints revisited” “Baby” “Doctor Jekyll” “Unguided tour” Editions. ISBN (New York: Farrar Straus Giraux, hardcover, ). I, Etcetera. READ AN EXCERPT. ________________________________________________________. In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays -- the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated. Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among then On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In , Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.