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Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the groundbreaking essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.

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• Against interpretation
• On style
• The artist as exemplary sufferer
• Notebooks Michel Leiris'
• Manhood
• The anthropologist as hero
• The literary criticism of Georg Lukacs Sartre's
• Sarraute and the novel Ionesco Reflections on The Deputy
• The death of tragedy, Going to theater, etc. Marat / Sade / Artaud Spiritual style in the films of
• The imagination of disaster Jack Smith's
• Flaming Creatures Resnais' Muriel
• A note on novels and films Piety without content Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's
• Life Against Death Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition Notes on "Camp" One culture and the new sensibility
• Afterword: Thirty Years Later

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Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. She received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne's College, Oxford University. She was the author of 17 books including four novels, a collection of short stories, several plays, and eight works of nonfiction. Her novels are The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction. On Photography received the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and Art in America. She also wrote and directed four feature films and stage plays in the United States and Europe. She died from leukemia on December 28, 2004 at the age of 71.

(Bowker Author Biography)