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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was a Jewish-American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, and In America.

Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Although her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy, she has been described as "one of the most influential critics of her generation.
years of life: 16 January 1933 28 December 2004

Quotes

Tamara Maplehas quotedlast year
En lo que me resta de vida, el amor me ayudará a entender el sentido del tiempo
Andréshas quoted2 years ago
Había una vez un escritor indeciso. Cuando escribía, lamentaba no poder leer, y, cuando leía, lamentaba no poder escribir
Andréshas quoted2 years ago
Se dice que allá arriba, en el reino de la gravedad, el Verbo se ha hecho cuerpo. Las palabras son tan pesadas como piedras; las frases tanto como cadenas montañosas; puntos y comas pesan en la página como calderilla en un monedero.

Todo esto es tras haber leído esa cantidad. Este párrafo es buenísimo y pesado.

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  • Ana María Matute,Anna Maria Mox,Carmen Martín Gaite,Charles Simic,Eduardo Mendoza,Gustavo Martín Garzo,Herta Müller,Javier Marías,John Berger,Jostein Gaarder,José Agustín Goytisolo,Juan Marsé,Milan Kundera,Orhan Pamuk,Susan Sontag,Tomeo Javier,W.G. Sebald
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