Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays Details
Review “In this collection, Sontag masters all she chooses to survey. She is a noble appreciator. Integrity, wholeness, large-sighted vision are intrinsic to Sontag's care for the intellectual life....Under the Sign of Saturn includes two long articles that belong together: the famed, polemical, whipping of Leni Riefenstahl's laundered reputation and camp cult of fascist art, and her stunning analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany.... After this feast, I am eager for her thoughts on anything.” ―Chicago Sun-Times“A self-described ‘besotted aesthete' and ‘obsessed moralist,' Sontag, more than most writers of her generation, views the everyday business of thinking and feeling as dialectical aspects of one another. Refining that sensibility while attending to the more provocative issues of the day, Sontag has created a body of work of exemplary merit.” ―The Boston Globe“No one has written more passionately about Antonin Artaud....Nor has anyone before Sontag taken the pains to demolish so thoroughly Hitler's favorite moviemaker, Leni Riefenstahl. This is one of the crack essays in the book.” ―Chicago Tribune Read more About the Author Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, including In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among them Against Interpretation and On Photography. Her latest book is Regarding the Pain of Others (FSG, 2002). Her books have been translated into 28 languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. Read more
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Susan Sontag’s insights are as valuable today as they were when she wrote them over forty years ago. I recommend that this book be accompanied by historian Dagmar Herzog’s edited collection of various scholars, Sexuality and German Fascism, which delves into that strange brew of political repression and sexual license. Also see Herbert Marcuse’s discussions on that which he termed, repressive desublimation. Finally, see my story on Medium, The Counterculture Vs. The Occult, for an observation of the late-60s.
