Against Interpretation: And Other Essays [Paperback]

A reissue of Susan Sontags classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writingon art, life, camp, and criticismthat cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation.

Susan Sontag is widely regarded as one of the most formidable, original, and influential writers of the last century.Against Interpretationis a modern classic, her first-ever collection and the work that launched her storied career when it was published in 1966. It has influenced generations of readers, and still contains some of her best-known essays, including Notes on Camp, Against Interpretation, and a dazzling range of, well, interpretations. Grand in scoperanging from philosophy to film to religion to psychoanalysisand short in length, this pocket-sized, pithy, and profound book introduces a larger-than-life intellectual powerhouse (Leslie Jamison).

Susan Sontagwas the author of four novels, includingThe Benefactor,Death Kit,The Volcano Lover, andIn America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories,I, etcetera; several plays, includingAlice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among themOn Photography, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.

Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on. Carlos Fuentes

A dazzling intellectual performance. Vogue

Susan Sontag is a writer of rare energy and provocative newness. The Nation

The theoretical portions of her book are delightful to read because she can argue so well. . . . Her ideas are consistently stimulating. Commentary

She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, al³£