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Fülszöveg

This first collection of stories by Susan Sontag is a literary event. The eight stories were written over more than a decade and each is stamped with Sontag's unpredictable intelligence and wit. The stories could be characterised as "debriefings" of women and men suffering the ordeals and dilemmas of consciousness. As one of her characters says: "We know more than we can use. Look at all this stuff I've got in my head: rockets and Venetian churches, David Bowie and Diderot, nuoc mam and Big Mac, sunglasses and orgasms."
The collection opens with Project for a Trip to China, in which the author investigates the sources of her ancient longing to go to China. Debriefing encounters life at the end of its tether in Manhattan, while Baby, as lively as a Nichols and May revue sketch, reveals the obsession of some disturbed parents about their ageing 'Baby'. In the following story we have a new variant of the Jekyll and Hyde theme and the collection closes as it began with a journey, one... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This first collection of stories by Susan Sontag is a literary event. The eight stories were written over more than a decade and each is stamped with Sontag's unpredictable intelligence and wit. The stories could be characterised as "debriefings" of women and men suffering the ordeals and dilemmas of consciousness. As one of her characters says: "We know more than we can use. Look at all this stuff I've got in my head: rockets and Venetian churches, David Bowie and Diderot, nuoc mam and Big Mac, sunglasses and orgasms."
The collection opens with Project for a Trip to China, in which the author investigates the sources of her ancient longing to go to China. Debriefing encounters life at the end of its tether in Manhattan, while Baby, as lively as a Nichols and May revue sketch, reveals the obsession of some disturbed parents about their ageing 'Baby'. In the following story we have a new variant of the Jekyll and Hyde theme and the collection closes as it began with a journey, one that describes reactions to tourist haunts; the beauties, the blemishes, the decay, the nostalgia, the bliss, the guidebook facts, the casual romance, the cost of it all.
It is a coruscating collection: a splendid display of fireworks by one of the most imaginative and original writers of our time.
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Susan Sontag has written two novels and several collections of essays including Against Interpretation and On Photography. She has written and directed three films, and her short stories have appeared widely. She has received many awards and fellowships in the USA, including two from the Guggenheim Foundation and two from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Author's photograph by Thomas Victor Vissza