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<div><div>"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!"</div><div> </div><div>So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.</div><div> </div><div><i>Reborn </i>is a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America’s greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag’s voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag’s complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself—all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.</div></div>
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Unborn (incl. one that Ginnie brought again to my attention) treat Sontag's early journals as being unusually wrenching, rooted in experiences of life that most of us would never dare go through. I think, though, that the journal of anyone with a sufficiently interesting life ...more...]]>
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The Guardian ran some excerpts from an upcoming edition of Susan Sontag's journals, and despite being at that time little more to me than a massive literary reputation to me, I was dazzled by her penetrating, often brutal self-dissection of her own personality and intellect. I even ...more...]]>
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Personally, I found it really interesting to visit with the lists and rants of young Sontag - I love her essays and am fascinated by the life arc that supported her thinking, and there's something inherently entertain...more...]]>
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‘WHAT YOU DIDN’T MISS, Pt 94
Reborn: Early diaries
1947-1964
Susan Sontag
11/25/47 (aged 14)
I believe:
that there is no personal god or life after death;
that the most d...more...]]>
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But, hey, what more can I expect from a person writing something they never expected other...more...]]>
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I loved reading her book lists, and the lists of movies she saw (according to her son she saw up to three a day, never going more than a week without a new film). But it also showed how someone with great tastes can also produce awful things.
She reminds herself that it is importan...more...]]>
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The writer must be four people:
1. The nut, the obsédé
2. The moron
3. The stylist
4. The critic
1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.
A great writer has all 4—but you can still be a good ...more...]]>