Later essays
By: Susan Sontag ; David Rieff, editor
Contributors: Rieff, David, editor; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004; Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Series: The Library of America -- 292; Library of America -- 292.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 865
ISBN-13: 9781598535198
Subjects: War and society; Modern Arts; Metaphor; Social aspects; AIDS (Disease); War in art
Other titles: Susan Sontag, later essays; Sontag, later essays
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Collects the essays in 5 books by Sontag published between 1980 and 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Under the sign of Saturn (1980). On Paul Goodman ; Approaching Artaud ; Fascinating fascism ; Under the sign of Saturn ; Syberberg's Hitler ; Remembering Barthes ; Mind as passion; title: AIDS and its metaphors (1989); title: Where the stress falls (2001). A poet's prose ; Where the stress falls ; Afterlives : the case of Machado de Assis ; A mind in mourning ; The wisdom project ; Writing itself : on Roland Barthes ; Walser's voice ; Danilo Kiš ; Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke ; Pedro Páramo ; DQ ; A letter to Borges ; A century of cinema ; A novel into film : Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ; A note on Bunraku ; A place for fantasy ; The pleasure of the image ; About Hodgkin ; A lexicon for Available light ; In memory of their feelings ; Dancer and the dance ; Lincoln Kirstein ; Wagner's fluids ; An ecstasy of lament ; One hundred years of Italian photography ; On Bellocq ; Borland's babies ; Certain Mapplethorpes ; A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it? ; Homage to Halliburton ; Singleness ; Writing as reading ; Thirty years later ; Questions of travel ; The idea of Europe (one more elegy) ; The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (an interlude) ; Answers to a questionnaire ; Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo ; "There" and "here" ; Joseph Brodsky ; On being translated; title: Regarding the pain of others (2003); title: At the same time : essays and speeches (2007). Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump ; Foreword by David Rieff ; An argument about beauty ; 1926 ... Pasternak, Tsevtayeva, Rilke ; Loving Dostoyevsky ; A double destiny : on Anna Banti's Artemisia ; Unextinguished : the case for Victor Serge ; Outlandish : on Halldór Laxness's Under the glacier ; 9.11.01 ; A few weeks after ; One year after ; Photography : a little summa ; Regarding the torture of others ; The conscience of words ; The world as India ; On courage and resistance ; Literature is freedom ; At the same time : the novelist and moral reasoning; title: Chronology.