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Susan Sontagová bola americká esejistka, kritička, filozofka, publicistka a prozaička. Jej knihy boli preložené do viac ako tridsať jazykov.

Narodila sa ako Susan Rosenblattová v newyorskej židovskej rodine Mildred a Jacka Rosenblatta. Otec obchodoval v Číne s kožuchmi a keď mala päť rokov, zomrel na tuberkulózu. Matka sa po jeho smrti vydala za Nathana Sontaga.

Od polovice šesťdesiatych rokov patrila medzi popredných amerických intelektuálov, rešpektovali ju jej priaznivci aj odporcovia, ovplyvňovala verejnú mienku. Písala štýlom, ktorý bol čitateľný, rozumeli mu nielen intelektuáli ale aj široká verejnosť.

Oblasť jej záujmov bol široký. Vo svojom literárnom diele sa zaoberala filozofiou, literatúrou, sociológiou, psychológiou, fotografiou, filmom, estetikou fašizmu, umením a gýčom, rakovinou a AIDS, vojnou, revolúciou či médiami.

Natočila niekoľko filmov a napísala scenáre k nim. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. január 1933 – 28. december 2004  •  Ďalšie mená Susan Sontagová, സൂസൻ സൊൻടാഗ്
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“Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

Susan Sontag

Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontext: To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.
Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

Susan Sontag

Zdroj: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Most of my reading is rereading.”

Susan Sontag

Zdroj: Conversations with Susan Sontag

“Desire has no history…”

Susan Sontag kniha On Photography

Zdroj: On Photography

“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?”

Susan Sontag

Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontext: We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions.

“Elites presuppose masses.”

Susan Sontag kniha Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will

“Styles change, style doesn't.”

Susan Sontag

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. - Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World (1991), p. 35 G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 0399136231
Misattributed

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

Susan Sontag

&quot;Notes on &#x27;Camp&#x27;&quot; (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&amp;q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&amp;pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&amp;pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z) <br class="br">Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”

Susan Sontag kniha AIDS and Its Metaphors

AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7
AIDS and Its Metaphors was later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.

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