Description
| Product ID: | 9780141190211 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Where the Stress Falls |
| Authors: | Author: Susan Sontag |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. It explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer. Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, ''Reading'', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag''s own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, ''Seeing'', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. And in the final section, ''There and Here'', Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-07-02 |
