Published by Picador USA
August 2001
paperback, 312 pages
$14.00US/$20.00CAN
ISBN: 0-312-28086-6

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Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

This edition has a new afterward, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of he battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.

"Susan Sontag's essays are great interpretations, and even fulfillments, of what is really going on." --Carlos Fuentes

"She has come to symbolize the writer and thinker in many variations: as analyst, rhapsodist, and roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience." --Time Magazine

"A dazzling intellectual performance." --Vogue