At the Same Time

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Sontag, Susan , Dilonardo, Paolo , Jump, Anne 저자(글)

St. Martins Press-3PL · 2007년 12월 26일

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'At the Same Time' gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Susan Sontag's life, which reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, and on political activism as an ethical duty, and fearlessly address the dilemmas of post-9/11 America.
Susan Sontag immediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essays Against Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, including In America(2000), which won the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as a collection of stories, several plays, and seven subsequent works of nonfiction, among them On Photography(1977), Illness as Metaphor(1978), and Regarding the Pain of Others(2003). Her many international honors included the Jerusalem Prize (2001) and the Friedenspreis (Peace Prize) of the German Book Trade (2003). She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. "At the Same Time" gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: "She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be "avidity." . . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same."
One of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag's path-breaking first collection of essays, Against Interpretation, introduced her as a major figure of our culture in l966. At the Same Time was written during the last years of Sontag's life. These sixteen essays discuss the freedom of literature, courage and resistance, and fearlessly address the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.
Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Timegathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. David Rieff describes his mother's passion in his foreword: "She wanted to experience everything, taste everything, go everywhere, do everything. Indeed, if I had only one word with which to evoke her, it would be avidity.. . . I think that, for her, the joy of living and the joy of knowing really were one and the same."
"A generously personal volume addressing her greatest ardors and gravest concerns . . . She was both artist and hero."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist """ "What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as 'a way of being fully human.'"--Hilary Mantel, "Los Angeles Times Book Review "
Praise for Susan Sontag: "Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag 'intellectual.'" --Adam Begley, "The New York Observer""" "[Sontag is] one of our very few brand-name intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment." --Sven Birkets, "The Yale Review""" "Not only did [her work] serve what should be an essential function of criticism, that of introducing readers to new work, weird work, things they wouldn't ordinarily encounter . . . it did so in a notable un-weird manner. Thoroughly trained in literature and philospohy, Sontag applied the standard of the past--truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality--to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perseverity . . . And the writing was marvelous--high-toned, Brahmin, but full of zest and the pleasure of performing." --Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker "
Praise for Susan Sontag: "Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag 'intellectual.'" --Adam Begley, "The New York Observer""" "?ontag is?one of our very few brand-name intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment." --Sven Birkets, "The Yale Review""" "Not only did ?er work?serve what should be an essential function of criticism, that of introducing readers to new work, weird work, things they wouldn't ordinarily encounter . . . it did so in a notable un-weird manner. Thoroughly trained in literature and philospohy, Sontag applied the standard of the past--truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality--to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perseverity . . . And the writing was marvelous--high-toned, Brahmin, but full of zest and the pleasure of performing." --Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker"
"What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as 'a way of being fully human.'" Hilary Mantel,Los Angeles Times Book Review
"What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as 'a way of being fully human.'"--Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"At the Same Time" gathers 16 essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty.

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저자(글) Sontag, Susan

1933년 1월 28일 뉴욕에서 태어난 수전 손택은 자타가 공인하는 미국 최고의 에세이 작가이자 뛰어난 소설가이며 예술평론가다. 손택은 15세가 되던 1948년 버클리의 캘리포니아에 입학해 일찍부터 대학 생활을 시작했다. 1955년 하버드 대학의 철학 박사학위 과정에 들어간 뒤 1957년 학위를 수여하고, 이듬해 파리 대학, 옥스퍼드 대학, 소르본 대학에서 수학하며 다시 학계로 돌아 왔다. 이때 첫 번째 저서가 될 뻔한 '프로이트 Freud: The Mind of the Moralist'를 남편인 리프와 공저하나, 이 책은 얼마 뒤에 겪은 이혼으로 인해 상호합의 아래 리프의 단독 저서로 출간된다. 그 뒤 1959년부터 뉴욕시립대학, 사라 로렌스 대학, 컬럼비아 대학 등에서 철학 강의를 맡게 된 손택은 1960년부터 각종 신문과 잡지에 활발한 기고 활동을 펼치게 되는데, 이때 첫 번째 소설 '은인'(1963)을 발표하면서 서서히 문단과 학계의 주목을 받게 된다. 1964년에 발표한 '해석에 반대한다'와 ' "캠프"에 관한 단상'은 '은인'을 쓰면서 체계화한 자신의 예술론을 자신 있게 드러낸 글이자, 자신을 1960년대 미국의 '새로운 지식인' 대열에 들게 한 중요한 글이었다

저자(글) Dilonardo, Paolo

저자(글) Jump, Anne

목차

• Preface by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump
  Foreword by David Rieff
  
  An Argument About Beauty
  1926 ... Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke
  Loving Dostoyevsky
  A Double Destiny: On Anna Banti's Artemisia
  Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge
  Outlandish: On Halldoer 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
  
  Acknowledgements

기본정보

ISBN	9780312426712 ( 0312426712 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 12월 26일
쪽수	256쪽
크기	141 * 209 * 18 mm / 240 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어