Where the Stress Falls Essays [Paperback]

Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classicAgainst Interpretation,America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first Reading includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, Seeing she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, There and Here Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

Susan Sontagis the author of four novels, includingIn America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among themAgainst InterpretationandOn Photography.Her latest book isRegarding the Pain of Others. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

Reading
A Poet's Prose
Where the Stress Falls
Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis
A Mind in Mourning
The Wisdom Project
Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes
Walser's Voice
Danilo Kia
Gombrowicz'sFerdydurke
Pedro P?ramo
DQ
A Letter to Borges

Seeing
A Century of Cinema
Novel into Film: Fassbinder'sBerlin Alexanderplatz
A Note on Bunraku
A Place for Fantasy
The Pleasure of the Image
About Hodgkin
A Lexicon forAvailable Light
In Memory of Their Feelings
Dancer and the Dance
Lincoln Kirstein
Wagner's Fluids
An Ecstasy of Lament
One Hundred Years of Italian Photography
On Bellocq
Borland's Babies
Certain Mapplethorpes
A Photograph is Not an Opinion. Or Is It?

There and Here
Homage to Halliburton
Singleness
WritilcO