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  • Against Interpretation and Other Essays

  • By: Susan Sontag
  • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
  • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Summary

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, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

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Strident, polemical, high pitched voice that made listening impossible.
Recommend a more mature reader for the text as this one has a little girl’s twang with self-conscious earnestness.

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