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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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“Since it is hardly likely that contemporary critics seriously mean to bar prose narratives that are unrealistic from the domain of literature, one suspects that a special standard is being applied to sexual themes. … There is nothing conclusive in the well-known fact that most men and women fall short of the sexual prowess that people in pornography are represented as enjoying; that the size of organs, number and duration of orgasms, variety and feasibility of sexual powers, and amount of sexual energy all seem grossly exaggerated. Yes, and the spaceships and the teeming planets depicted in science-fiction novels don’t exist either. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography or science-fiction from being literature. … The materials of the pornographic books that count as literature are, precisely, one of the extreme forms of human consciousness. Undoubtedly, many people would agree that the sexually obsessed consciousness can, in principle, enter into literature as an art form. … But then they usually add a rider to the agreement which effectively nullifies it. They require that the author have the proper “distance” from his obsessions for their rendering to count as literature. Such a standard is sheer hypocrisy, revealing one again that the values commonly applied to pornography are, in the end, those belonging to psychiatry and social affairs rather than to art. (Since Christianity upped that ante and concentrated on sexual behavior as the root of virtue, everything pertaining to sex has been a “special case” in our culture, evoking particularly inconsistent attitudes.) Van Gogh’s paintings retain their status as art even if it seems his manner of painting owed less to a conscious choice of representational means than to his being deranged and actually seeing reality the way he painted it. … What makes a work of pornography part of the history of art rather than of trash is not distance, the superimposition of a consciousness more conformable to that of ordinary reality upon the “deranged consciousness” of the erotically obsessed. Rather, it is the originality, thoroughness, authenticity, and power of that deranged consciousness itself, as incarnated in a work.”

Susan Sontag kniha Styles of Radical Will

“The Pornographic Imagination,” pp. 45-47
Styles of Radical Will (1966)

“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”

Susan Sontag kniha Against Interpretation

"Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 14
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

“Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.”

Susan Sontag kniha Under the Sign of Saturn

Fascism" http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm"Fascinating (1974), published in The New York Review of Books (6 February 1975) and reprinted in Sontag's Under the Sign of Saturn (1980), p. 92, ISBN 0312420080

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