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Also by Susan Sontag:

As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh, April 2012
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Reborn, December 2008
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Regarding The Pain Of Others, February 2004
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REBORN
By: Susan Sontag

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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"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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Fresh Air - NPR - January 22, 2009