

Under the Sign of Saturn
Essays
Author: Susan Sontag
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/27/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Author: Susan Sontag
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/27/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. 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.
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed producer, narrator, writer, and stage and film actor. An Audie and Earphones award winner, she has been nominated for nearly every possible award and has been named an Audiobook Narrator of the Year by Booklist Magazine. Part of the Grammy-nominated full-cast recording of Charlotte’s Web, she has narrated more than 700 solo, multi-cast, and full-cast titles.
Nieustannie jestem pod wrażeniem erudycji oraz przenikliwości twórczości Sontag.......more
Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. This is an important collection......more
Sontag has once again compiled an intelligent collection of essays on widely varying aesthetic topics. Though she begins with a rather artificial and patronizing obituary for the late man of letters Paul Goodman, whose body of work she is evidently less than enthused with, though she feels obliged t......more
Sontag, as ever, manages to craft writings of remarkable intellectual range and depth on pretty much anything she focuses. Under the Sign of Saturn feels a bit darker than some of her other books I've read, in so far is a lot of the essays focus on (both directly and implicity) fascism and its broad......more
“No one has written more passionately about Antonin Artaud….Nor has anyone before Sontag taken the pains to demolish so thoroughly Hitler’s favorite moviemaker, Leni Riefenstahl.” Chicago Tribune
“In this collection, Sontag masters all she chooses to survey.” Chicago Sun-Times
“Attending to the more provocative issues of the day, Sontag has created a body of work of exemplary merit.” Boston Globe