Susan Sontag

”Det hela började med en essä kring några av de problem – estetiska och moraliska – som framkommit av att vi har fotografiska bilder överallt omkring oss, men ju mer jag funderade på vad fotografier är, desto mer komplexa och tankeväckande blev de.” Susan Sontags Om fotografi (1977) är ett av 1900-talets viktigaste bidrag till […]

On Women brings together Susan Sontag’s most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in […]

On Women brings together Susan Sontag’s most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in […]

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Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist – inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she