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Author: Susan Sontag, David Rieff Publisher: Picador
The first of three planned volumes of Sontag's private journals, this book is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontags writing—extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity; Sontags vulnerability throughout will also utterly surprise the late critic and novelists fans and detractors.
Most powerful are the entries corresponding to her years in England and Europe, when, apart from Philip and their son, the marriage broke down and Sontag entered intense lesbian relationships that would compel her to rethink her notions of sex, love and daughter- and motherhood, and all before the age of 30. Watching Sontag become herself is nothing short of cathartic.
自《反对阐释》开始,每一本桑塔格著作的问世,都是美国一次重大的文化事件。许多有关她生平轶事的著作在她逝世后陆续出版,其中当属《桑塔格日记》的出版最令人期待与激动。苏珊·桑塔格身后留下了近100本日记、笔记。
1947至1963年,正是桑塔格从一个花季少女成长为一个青年作家以及单身母亲所走过的历程。其生命的中心内容就是不顾一切地去经历:如饥似渴地去阅读,竭尽全力地去理解。日记中的内容都是高密度的、省略性的、跳跃性的,有大量的摘抄、无穷无尽的书单、关于写作的想法、与不同时期友人的关系,以及详尽的自我分析。
The first of three planned volumes of Sontag's private journals, this book is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontags writing—extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity; Sontags vulnerability throughout will also utterly surprise the late critic and novelists fans and detractors.
Most powerful are the entries corresponding to her years in England and Europe, when, apart from Philip and their son, the marriage broke down and Sontag entered intense lesbian relationships that would compel her to rethink her notions of sex, love and daughter- and motherhood, and all before the age of 30. Watching Sontag become herself is nothing short of cathartic.
自《反对阐释》开始,每一本桑塔格著作的问世,都是美国一次重大的文化事件。许多有关她生平轶事的著作在她逝世后陆续出版,其中当属《桑塔格日记》的出版最令人期待与激动。苏珊·桑塔格身后留下了近100本日记、笔记。
1947至1963年,正是桑塔格从一个花季少女成长为一个青年作家以及单身母亲所走过的历程。其生命的中心内容就是不顾一切地去经历:如饥似渴地去阅读,竭尽全力地去理解。日记中的内容都是高密度的、省略性的、跳跃性的,有大量的摘抄、无穷无尽的书单、关于写作的想法、与不同时期友人的关系,以及详尽的自我分析。