โ Scribed by Sontag, Susan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In her first collection of essays, first published in 1966, the author relates her theories of literary criticism to the total aesthetic experience and discusses such topics as Sartre, Simone Weil, Beckett, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking.;Against interpretation -- On style -- The artist as exemplary sufferer -- Simone Weil -- Camus' Notebooks -- Michel Leiris' Manhood -- The anthropologist as hero -- The literary criticism of Georg Lukรกcs -- Sartre's Saint Genet -- Nathalie 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 Robert Bresson -- Godard's Vivre sa vie -- 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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