Name: Under the Sign of Saturn
ISBN: 9781466853591

Susan Sontag

This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time.

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Under the Sign of Saturn

'Saturn is the "planet of detours and delays" according to Walter Benjamin, one of the six literary figures under examination in Susan Sontag's latest collections of essays. Sontag ... understands the saturnine mentality: the slowness, the attentiveness, the patience, the melancholy need to work, the solitude, the complexity of excellence and stamina, Sontag's criticism is a kind of spiritual autobiography ... it is sufficient to confirm not only her excellence but her stature as one of America's foremost critics' Washington Post.

Under the Sign of Saturn Essays

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