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Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2008
On Sale: December 9, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0374100748
EAN: 9780374100742
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating
experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall
be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall
anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is
everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything
matters!" So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of
sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals
and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising
record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with
journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her
years as a university and graduate student, and ends in
1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer
of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.
Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America’s
greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag’s
voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the
young Sontag’s complex self-awareness, share in her
encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and
engage with the profound challenge of writing itself—all
filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday
circumstance.
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