As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Recommended by Deborah Levy, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #8 in Journals

This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966.

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her...
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Deborah Levy She felt that it was her job to keep her mother alive, and that she’d sacrificed her own need to be dependant. (Source)


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