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  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190051
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.00

Styles Of Radical Will




Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics

This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating account of America's identity and future, a robust and surprising discussion of pornography and other richly rewarding writings on art, film, literature and politics.

  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190051
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.00

About the author

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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