What does /lit/ think of Susan Sontag, America's premier woman of letters?
[non-misogynistically] i can't stand her corny-ass pseudish prose to be honest...
>>25315470How is the "I'm jewish, very opinionated, and I have some friends and relatives in MSM and publishing" genre still going strong to this day, decades after it became played out and incredibly samey?
>>25315497She IS from decades ago you asshat
>>25315470the novels are bad but the essays are kino, anyone who hasn't read Against Interpretation and Regarding The Pain Of Others is missing out. had a film professor in college who would pronounce her name "sonTACGH" and then grin like he was very pleased with himself
>>25315640It technically should be "Zonn-thag"Imagine being named Sunday. Susan Sunday.
>>25315470I believe the novels of susan sontag are overrated, self-indulgent crap.
>>25315690she's revered for her non-fiction works
>>25315640i thought against interpretation ruled, guess im reading pain of others soon, thanks anon
one of the nastiest people ive come across
>>25315640I've only read On Photography but it was incredible, hard not to underline the whole book because it was just one insightful thing after another.
>>25315906Oh you met her?
Why do you make this every day?
Notes on Camp is a classic
I have a suspicion that those lips were pressed up against another woman's anus, and that anus was most likely extremely hairy.
>>25317429Wtf I like susan sontag now
>>25316591I hate to think of books in terms of "insights per page" but On Photography is just paragraph after paragraph after paragraph after paragraph of 'damn, it never occurred to me to think of it like that, that's a really good point'Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't read it
>>25315470Sontag's Essays are all time. They still hold up today. They are surprisingly readable and insightful. The fact that On Photography still holds up in our post-instagram era is practically unheard of. You could hand these essays out in a high school classroom or a Master level Media Studies course and they would be legible and pertinent. I think her best works in order are1. Against Interpretation. (mostly for a select few essays like the namesake, On Style, Notes on Camp, but everything is good. 2. On Photography - the entirety of this incredible3. Regarding the Pain of Others4. Illness as Metaphor - maybe not as classic as others, but preshadows and predicts a lot of current writing trends about illness and health. I would argue the first two are required reading.
Shes the premier BBC queen
Her novel The Volcano Lover was so atrocious I swore I'd never read another word of her. Guess I have to read her essays now?
I found Sontag to be my soulmate – too bad I was born gay and decades too late.
>>25315470I think she was mad she wasn't getting enough dick from white Chads so she wrote a polemic.
Are all the positive posts in this thread the same guy pretending to be multiple anons?
>>25318685I'm >>25315640 not OP, but I guess it could be just be us two
>>25318685No, her essays are incredible.
Inbred stetl creatures from New Amsterdam Oblast cornering the publishing market led to yenta frauds like this stunningly mid 'beauty' and Mr. Bloom to pretend they had any hand in building this country and civilization, in any capacity, literary or otherwise. The taint of bad conscience in American letters aping the Old World finds its origin in here benighted and thoroughly bigoted ilk.
>>25315470>What does /lit/ think of... womantits or GTFO
>>25315470Evil, evil woman, much like Vanessa Place. I hope she's enjoying hell.
>>25319214Why is Place evil?
