Book description
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh reveals the inner life
of Susan Sontag.
Providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the leading
intellectuals of the modern age, Susan Sontag's As Conscious is
Harnessed to Flesh chronicles the cultural, moral, and political
journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers.
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through
the turbulent years of the late 1960s - from her trip to Hanoi at the
peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden - up to
1980, just before the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an
invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive
and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her
power. It is also a remarkable document of on individual's political
and moral awakening.
'More true to life, both intellectual and emotional, than the most
artful novel or careful biography' Sunday Telegraph
'Gold dust' Sunday Times
'A powerful self-portrait emerges. In its fragmentation . . . and
passion, its combination of the erudite and the everyday, it is more
true to life, both intellectual and emotional, than the most artful
novel or careful biography. It may well be that Sontag's diaries will
come to be seen as just as brilliant and important as anything she
wrote' Sunday Telegraph
'Mesmerising, fascinating' Guardian
'Express the fullness and diversity of her intellectual curiosity.
Revelatory in the most profound sense: they are existential fragments,
self-selected thoughts, emotions, reactions . . . arising in one of
the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century' The Times
One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag
was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death
in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of
non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On
Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time,
Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early
Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A
further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the
Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels
The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available
from Penguin Modern Classics.
One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag
was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death
in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of
non fiction, among them
Regarding the Pain of Others
,
On Photography
,
Illness as Metaphor
,
At the Same Time
and
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
, all of which are published by Penguin.
