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Under the Sign of Saturn
Essays
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Under the Sign of Saturn
Brings together the author's important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as an analysis of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's "Hitler, a Film from Germany".
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New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's exploration of the most important artists of our time.
Under the Sign of Saturn, Susan Sontag's third essay collection, brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works, she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time.
This collection includes her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany. There are also highly personal and powerful explorations of death, art, language, history, the imagination, and writing itself.
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Susan Sontag's Under the Sign of Saturn is lauded for her insightful and passionate essays on cultural figures, including a compelling critique of Antonin Artaud and a thorough dismantling of Leni Riefenstahl, said to be among the standout analyses in the collection. It is praised for its intellectual rigor and depth, showcasing Sontag's unique ability to engage deeply with the subjects of art and cultural criticism.
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ISBN: 9780141190082
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 166g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. 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. She died in December 2004. Penguin will publish Sontag on Film in October 2016.
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