Where the Stress Falls, Susan Sontag
Where the Stress Falls, Susan Sontag
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Where the Stress Falls
Essays

Author: Susan Sontag

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2018

Synopsis

Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer—more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America’s most important essayist chose more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the previous twenty years. “Reading,” the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag’s own private canon—Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second section, “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.

About Susan Sontag

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.

About Tavia Gilbert

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

I ran across this substantial collection of Susan Sontag's later essays in a Virginia bookstore I visited with some of my family over the holidays. While I had read and seen a number of interviews she gave over the years, aware that she was a brilliant, sometimes tempestuous public intellectual, thi......more

Goodreads review by Lazarus

These later, shorter, somewhat quieter essays, shorn of any supplicatory tendency to establish their author's theoretical mark on the world {accomplished as they unarguably are, earlier collections such as Against Interpretation possess, with all their youthful vigour, the capacity to leave one feel......more

Quotes

“Where the Stress Falls raises the bar of criticism to the highest level…[Sontag’s] energy infuses every word in the collection.” Seattle Times

“[Sontag] regroups the familiar and makes the eye fresh…She stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory: for self as work in progress.” Los Angeles Times Book Review

“There is no one quite like Sontag, and her many admirers will enjoy following up on her reading tips and engaging in debate with her via this book.” Publishers Weekly

“Over twenty years of astute observations on culture, arts, and aesthetics…An attractive and interesting collection from an important cultural thinker.” Library Journal

“Her criticism is art in its own right…A substantial and wonderfully musical collection that makes matters literary and artistic urgent and thrilling.” Booklist

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