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  <title><![CDATA[Against Interpretation: And Other Essays]]></title>
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  <default_description>As well as the title essay and the famous Notes on Camp, Against Interpretation includes original, provocative, and impassioned discussions on Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1981</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[The famous essay on camp is in this edition as well as wonderful essays on Godard and Beckett.  Sontag was an amazing essayist, a really great cultural critic.  A walking and breathing treasure of knowledge and clear thinking.   One would think she would have loved Goodreads -- but then maybe not.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8300271">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I highly recommend this book (Sontag's first published and perhaps best-known collection of essays) to anybody who considers the arts and humanities important.  Unlike some other generalist authors, Sontag has got to be one of the most well-versed writers of the century, and her explorations of gene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57150558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The strange thing about this criticism is that it has already become outmoded. Not that Sontag's critiques are themselves inadequate, but that the ground beneath them has shifted in very predictable (given her own theses) ways. And in some way, these (I hesitate to call them essays, as the great maj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47727336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far i've read <em>Against Interpretation</em> (essay) and <em>Notes On Camp</em> from this collection. AI poses that so-called art works--film, paintings, music, writing, performance--are interpreted in a destructive process that has stepped away from formal criticism and towards a subjectively modern approach to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51263103">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 21 18:42:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Susan Sontag recently died and I have heard a lot about her referenced as a critic over the years and saw her seminal book of criticism, Against Interpretation, at a used bookshop and picked it up. It was a visionary book, published in 1966; many of the essays and subjects are among the intellectual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10846985">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here is where I discovered my model, my ideal: I too aspire to be able to discuss and analyze so deftly literature, cinema, music, theater, philosophy, theory and society, and their countless and inevitable intersections.  The celebrated &quot;Notes on Camp&quot; and the title essay are the standout...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54398092">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book makes me think that Susan Sontag was pretty cool in addition to being really smart. She seems to be really interested in certain aspects of culture and themes in art, and then just writes essays on the subject (a very European style of discourse). My favorites in this collection were &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21589997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sontag is right about practically everything. She predicts post-structuralism and post-modernism and warns against them. She was a skeptic about Freud and Marx when it was not fashionable. She was one of the first to see Ozu and Bela Tarr as greater filmmakers than their peers, and last but not leas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70058488">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be Sontag's most rigorous and important collection of essays, complete with topics ranging from Levi-Strauss to Godard. In it is her famous essay &quot;On Camp,&quot; which would later make her a superstar in the New York artistic community. <br/><br/>Sontag is worried about intellectual ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34785285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it is a testament to how great this book really is that camille paglia resented (see 'sontag bloody sontag) the writer's departure from the subjects here treated with great erudition: pop culture.  this is brilliance, pure and simple, unmatched in her latter, more mature work.  the seminal &quot;not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48579185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mostly read. Well - partially read. Need break from Sontag. Still love her though. &quot;Artist as sufferer&quot; and &quot;Against Interpretation&quot; were my favourites.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reread &quot;Notes on Camp.&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="18810917">
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    <body><![CDATA[this book made me wish Susan Sontag was still alive, or that i had read it before she died at least, or that i was born sooner or something because i would have wanted this woman to be my mentor.  i've never felt so intellectually gratified.  is there anyone else out there, anyone alive right now, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18810917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In addition to the title essay, and the important essay on “camp,” this selection includes some of Sontag’s writings on film, theatre, criticism, psychoanalysis and literature.  Subjects of Sontag’s comments include Jean Genet, Antonin Artaud, Simone Weil, N.O. Brown and Jean Luc Godard.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is very difficult. And it is also impossible to appreciate without having read the books or works to which she refers... Not an enjoyable read, but from a very intelligent woman. Some nice quotes ... PS&gt; I did not finish this book]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone with any interest in critical reading and aesthetics absolutely must read the first two essays in this book.  the rest of it is equally good.  I just reread it after 12 years and had forgotten how insightful these essays are.]]></body>
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    <review id="28147434">
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    <body><![CDATA[My first encounter with Sontag. Her opinions and perspectives on literature, film, and art are addictive. My favorites were &quot;Nathalie Sarraute and the Novel&quot; and &quot;Notes on 'Camp'.&quot; Highly recommended.]]></body>
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    <review id="38452711">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[1969 Dell Laurel paperback edition]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[....that although reading high end theory, criticism etc. is a pain in the arse it is worth it.  The main title essay was amazing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[these are mostly essays from the '60s when she was a beast.  they were real upset about things back then.  ]]></body>
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