Conversations With Susan Sontag

Covering the period from 1967 to 1993, this collection of interviews gives attention to Sontag's education--Berkeley, Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne--and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, and covers Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist and cultural critic.

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 Sontags education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontags 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