Leland Poague

Conversations with Susan Sontag Leland Poague

Marc Notes: Avail. in cloth at $39.50 Co-pub.with Washington UP; Also pbk. Publisher Marketing: The greatest effort is to be really where you are, contemporary with yourself, in your life, giving full attention to the world. That's what a writer does. I'm against the solipsistic idea that you find it all in your head. You don't. Publisher Marketing: Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne, appointed to teaching positions in English, philosophy, and religion, she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of "The Benefactor" and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992, when her much acclaimed novel "The Volcano Lover: A Romance" was published, "The Benefactor" alone had gone through twenty-one editions in nine languages. Review Citations:

Booklist 12/15/1995 pg. 681 (EAN 9780878058341, Paperback)

Booklist 12/15/1995 pg. 681 (EAN 9780878058334, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Poague, Leland Poague is a professor of English at Iowa State University. Contributor Bio:  Sontag, Susan Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, "The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, "and "In America," which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, "I, etcetera"; several plays, including "Alice in Bed"; and five works of nonfiction, among them "Against Interpretation "and "On Photography," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2003.