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"Intelligence and Passion: A Biography of Susan Sontag" Author: [France] Beatrice Moussli Producer: Yazhong Culture
"Intelligence and Passion: A Biography of Susan Sontag" Author: [France] Beatrice Moussli Producer: Yazhong Culture
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"I am a wanderer who derives pleasure from discovery, encounters, and exchanges." - Susan Sontag
Winner of the French Palm Education Knight Medal | Winner of the French Academy Biography Award, a masterpiece that reveals the legendary life of an ambitious female intellectual
Facing the contemporary thinking of "public conscience", outlining the ideological map of the Western cultural world in the second half of the 20th century
The book cites a large number of archives that were opened after Sontag's death (a large number of personal documents donated to the University of California by Sontag during her lifetime | a large number of works published during and after her lifetime), providing readers with valuable information to understand Sontag and opening up multiple possibilities for knowledge and understanding
【Content Introduction】
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Susan Sontag is one of the most important female intellectuals in the contemporary West and has won many international literary awards. As an iconic figure of an era, Sontag's works are intended to seek understanding of the times she lives in. Her life experience also reflects the ideological landscape and literary trends of the Western intellectual and cultural circles from the 1930s to the early 21st century.
French literary historian Beatrice Mousley uses archival documents and published works from both before and after Sontag's life, takes time as the axis and the important events in each stage of Sontag's life as the focus, places Sontag's art criticism, literary creation, political views and spiritual journey in history for examination, and outlines the intellectual journey of this "all-encompassing soul" throughout her life.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Beatrice Mousli is a French literary historian. She received her doctorate in 20th century literature from the Sorbonne University in 1993. She is currently the head of the French and Italian Department and the director of the Center for French-speaking Countries and Regions at the University of Southern California. She has written biographies of many writers, including Virginia Woolf, Max Jacob, and Philippe Soupault. She has won the Grand Prix de Biography of the French Academy, the Anne de Noailles Prize of the French Academy, and was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Palme d'Education issued by the French Ministry of Education.
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