"Against Interpretation" and other essays, by Susan Sontag
It's a little intimidating to try to comment upon this essay collection. Its first two essays--"Against Interpretation" and "On Style"--are so fascinating and so lucid that I am afraid my commentary can only impose a gloss of half-understood meaning on top of Sontag's clear structure. After reading these first two essays, I was convinced that I was read…
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