Reborn : journals and notebooks, 1947-1963

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Title:

Reborn : journals and notebooks, 1947-1963

Author:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

ISBN:

9780374100742

Personal Author:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Physical Description:

xiv, 318 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers.

Personal Subject:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004-Diaries.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004-Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Subject Term:

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.

Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Rieff, David.

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"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience--does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful--I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!"

So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.

Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself--all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.

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