Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag, c1964. Photo by Paul Popper.

Susan Sontag (born Susan Rosenblatt, 16 January 1933 – 28 December 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, novelist, writer of screenplays, professor, literary icon, and political activist.

Works

On Photography, 1977, Log, IA, PDF.

(in English unless noted)

Novels

• The Benefactor, New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1963, ix+273 pp.
• Death Kit, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967, 311 pp.
• The Volcano Lover: A Romance, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992, 419 pp.
• In America, 2000

Monographs

• Trip to Hanoi, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, 91 pp.
• On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977, 207 pp, Log, IA, PDF.
  • Sobre la fotografía, trans. Carlos Gardini, Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1981, PDF. (in Spanish)
• Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978, 87 pp, PDF.
• AIDS and Its Metaphors, London: Allen Lane, 1989, 95 pp, PDF. A follow-up to Illness as Metaphor.
• Regarding the Pain of Others, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003, 131 pp, PDF.

Essay collections

• Against Interpretation and Other Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966, ix+304 pp. Excerpts.
• Styles of Radical Will, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969, 274 pp.
• I, etcetera, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978, 246 pp.
• Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980, 203 pp, PDF.
• A Susan Sontag Reader, intro. Elizabeth Hardwick, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982, xv+446 pp.
• Where the Stress Falls: Essays, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 347 pp.
• At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 235 pp.

Film books

• Duet for Cannibals, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970, 129 pp.
• Brother Carl, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974, xvi+174 pp.

Plays

• with Howard Hodgkin, The Way We Live Now, London: Jonathan Cape, 1990, 30 pp.
• "A Parsifal", in Trevor Fairbrother, Robert Wilson’s Vision, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, and New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991, pp 19-27.
• Alice im Bett: Stück in acht Szenen, trans. Wolfgang Weins, Frankfurt: Verlag der Autoren, 1991. 66 pp. (in German)
  • Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993, 117 pp.

Edited books

• Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings, ed. Susan Sontag, trans. Helen Weaver, notes Susan Sontag and Don Eric Levine, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, lix+661 pp.
• A Barthes Reader, ed. Susan Sontag, New York: Hill & Wang, 1982, xxxviii+495 pp.

Articles, papers, chapters, reviews

• "Notes on Camp", Partisan Review, 1964; repr. in Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader, 1964, pp 53-65.
• "Film and Theatre", The Tulane Drama Review 11:1 (Autumn 1966), pp 24-37.
• "A Note on Bunraku", The Threepenny Review 16 (1984).
• "In Conclusion...", East-West Film Journal 2:1 (December 1987), pp 93-106.
• "The Decay of Cinema", New York Times, 1996.
• "Why are we in Kosovo?", New York Times Magazine, 2 May 1999.
• "A Photograph is not an Opinion. Or is it?", Women, 1999.
• "Looking at War", The New Yorker, 9 Dec 2002, pp 82-98.
• "Regarding the torture of others", New York Times, 23 May 2004, p 24.
• "At the same time... (the novelist and moral reasoning)", English Studies in Africa 48:1 (2005), pp 5-17.
• "An argument about beauty", Dædalus (Fall 2005), pp 208-213.

Bibliographies

• Leland A. Poague, Kathy A. Parsons, Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliography, 1948-1992, Garland Publishing, 2000, 445 pp.
• in Chris Murray (ed.), Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, Routledge, 2002.

Interviews

• Evans Chan, "Against Postmodernism, etcetera--A Conversation with Susan Sontag", Postmodern Culture, 2001
• "Art and Consciousness" (Susan Sontag interviewed by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta), Performing Arts Journal", 80 (2005):1–9.

Literature

Essays

• Toback, James, "Whatever You'd Like Susan Sontag to Think, She doesn't", Esquire 70 (1968), pp 58-61.
• Sohnya Sayres, "Susan Sontag and the Practice of Modernism", American Literary History 1:3 (Autumn 1989), pp 593-611.
• Steven Drukman, "Notes on Fornes (with Apologies to Susan Sontag)", American Theatre 17:7 (2000), p 36.
• Barbara Clow, "Who's Afraid of Susan Sontag? or, the Myths and Metaphors of Cancer Reconsidered", Social History of Medicine 14:2 (2001), pp 293-312.
• Sarah Parsons, "Sontag’s Lament: Emotion, Ethics, and Photography", Photography & Culture 2:3 (Nov 2009), pp 289-302.

Links

• http://www.gettyimages.no/editorial/susan-sontag-pictures?page=2
• http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/archive.shtml
• http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/sontag/sontag.htm
• http://edulibs.org/susan-sontag/