Susan Sontag immediately became a major figure of our culture with the publication in 1966 of the pathbreaking collection of essays Against Interpretation. She went on to write four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and seven works of nonfiction, among them On Photography (1977) and Illness as Metaphor (1978). Her many international honors included the Jerusalem Prize (2000) and the Friedenspreis (Peace Prize) of the German Book Trade (2003). She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
"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.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The first of three planned volumes of Sontag's private journals, this book is extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontags writing—extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity; Sontags vulnerability throughout will also utterly surprise the late critic and novelists fans and detractors. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag (1933–2004) already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture, though what is most remarkable here is watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. In these carefully selected excerpts (many passages are only a few lines), Sontag details her developing thoughts, her voluminous reading and daily movie-going, her life as a teenage college student at Berkeley discovering her sexuality (bisexuality as the expression of fullness of an individual), and meeting and marrying her professor Philip Rieff, with whom, at the age of 18, she had David, her only child. Most powerful are the entries corresponding to her years in England and Europe, when, apart from Philip and their son, the marriage broke down and Sontag entered intense lesbian relationships that would compel her to rethink her notions of sex, love (physical beauty is enormously, almost morbidly, important to me) and daughter- and motherhood, and all before the age of 30. Watching Sontag become herself is nothing short of cathartic. (Dec.)
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From Booklist
Rieff sensitively portrayed revered critic and novelist Sontag during her last days in Swimming in a Sea of Death (2008) and now continues to navigate the great sea of her legacy as editor of her journals. He didn’t want to open his mother’s private life to public eyes, but because her papers are available to scholars, he does so preemptively, granting readers access to the innermost thoughts of a genuine prodigy. In 1948, at age 15, Sontag asks, “And what is it to be young in years and suddenly awakened to the anguish, the urgency of life?” After starting college at 16, she fills her journals with passionate analysis of books, her intellectual ambitions, her struggle to accept her homosexuality, and the ecstasy and torment of her first lesbian relationship. Then, suddenly, this ardent seeker becomes a wife and mother. She loves her son, but marriage does not suit her, and her battle to reclaim her true self is one of several dramatic rebirths punctuating this electrifying record of Sontag striving to become Sontag. Two more volumes are planned. --Donna Seaman
Review
“What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as ‘a way of being fully human.’” —Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book Review
2004年,桑塔格去世后,儿子戴维着手整理她留下的日记,分三卷出版。《重生》是第一卷,戴维这样描述这本日记:“这些材料呈现的是年轻的桑塔格的肖像,那时她正自觉而坚定地致力于塑造她所向往的自我。” 这本日记记录的正是一个年轻人的自我塑造过程。日期从1947年到1963年。...
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评分我们为什么要读作家的日记呢?大概是通过作品了解到的作家是不完整的,就算我们知道作品中的人物有作家自我精神的投射,但是作品虚构的本质,还让我们对隐匿在作品背后的人一无所知。作品并不是作家最好的代言,作品的隐秘性与虚构性,容易让引发作家癫狂与意淫的一面,他可以...
本来看的原版 之后发现日记大多数还是碎碎念的本质转战中文版kindle大致浏览了一遍 不费神看原版了 神经质少女脑洞记录本 少年时期开始的惊人的阅读量和速度 长大之后很多关于哲学的思考 感情上一直像个孩子
评分真是个自大有自恋的女人啊。 一会说自己是BI 一会说自己是蕾丝 哎哟哟 还生了个儿子
评分日记体的自恋和自我修正.....桑塔格语言的准确性
评分本来看的原版 之后发现日记大多数还是碎碎念的本质转战中文版kindle大致浏览了一遍 不费神看原版了 神经质少女脑洞记录本 少年时期开始的惊人的阅读量和速度 长大之后很多关于哲学的思考 感情上一直像个孩子
评分it helps my understanding of myself as well
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