Against Interpretation And Other Essays

"This is a hard book to like and a harder one not to admire... What puts one off more than the extravagance of her judgments...or the knowing, sometimes messianic shrillness of her tone, is Miss Sontag's concern with being, above and before all, fashionably avant-garde. One can't resist the suspicion that 'the new sensibility' she heralds in these essays is her own, and that much of her esthetic doctrine is a complicated and unconscious self-promotion....Perhaps what makes AGAINST INTERPRETATION valuable and exciting is not so much its erudition which is considerable, or its high level of intelligence, but its passionate irresponsibility, its determined outrageousness."Sontag, Susan is the author of 'Against Interpretation And Other Essays', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312280864 and ISBN 0312280866.