"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag’s incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer’s responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and addresses written in the last years of Sontag’s life, when her work was being honored on the international stage, that reflect on the personally liberating nature of literature, her deepest commitment, and on political activism and resistance to injustice as an ethical duty. She considers the works of writers from the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, who struggled and eventually succeeded in publishing his only book days before his death; to the greats, such as Nadine Gordimer, who enlarge our capacity for moral judgment. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the Same Time, which includes a foreword by her son, David Rieff, is a passionate, compelling work from an American writer at the height of her powers, who always saw literature "as a passport to enter a larger life, the zone of freedom."
苏珊·桑塔格,1933年生于美国纽约,毕业于芝加哥大学。1993年当选为美国文学艺术学院院士。她是美国声名卓著的“新知识分子”,与西蒙娜·波伏瓦、汉娜·阿伦特并称为西方当代最重要的女知识分子,被誉为“美国公众的良心”。2000年获美国国家图书奖,2001年获耶路撒冷国际文学奖,2003年获德国图书大奖——德国书业和平奖。2004年12月28日病逝于纽约。
Susan Sontag is acclaimed as the conscience of American Public due to her acute criticism and unbiased judgement. At the Same Time, an anthology selected and valued by the author herself, incorporates influential book reviews, commetaries on 9.11 and addres...
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