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Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne, appointed to teaching positions in English, philosophy, and religion, she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of The Benefactor and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance was published, The Benefactor alone

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Conversations with Susan Sontag
• Author: Leland Poague
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• EAN: 9780878058341
• ISBN: 0878058346
• ID: 04175032
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 496 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 1995

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