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简介："This book saved my life." So recalls the Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran about a book that meditates on madness and death, the absurdity of existence, and the agony of consciousness. Cioran finds in our darkest fears not only reasons to continue living but also the comic, absurd humor in doing so. This early work by Cioran, whom Susan Sontag calls "the most distinguished figure in the tradition of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein," and Marc Fumaroli recently described as "a legend ... a master of French prose," portrays the philosophical mind in the crisis of its self-consuming fever. Born out of a terrible insomnia which Cioran characterizes as "a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell," On the Heights of Despair was written in Romania in 1934 at the age of twenty-two. It presents us with the youthful Cioran, who described himself as "a Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights." It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair. For Cioran, writing and philosophy are closely related to physical suffering: both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to metaphysical revelation. The result is a book that becomes a substitute for as well as an antidote to suicide. By enacting the struggle of the Romantic soul against God, the universe, and itself, Cioran releases a saving burst of lyrical energy that carries him safely out of his desperation. On the Heights of Despair shows the philosopher's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. Yet the bracing verve of Cioran's writing and his earthy good humor point toward the elegant stylist of later works. An exorcism of despair, On the Heights of Despair offers insight into the ironic anguish of this philosophical mind. It also gives readers a fascinating look at Cioran's early development, opening new perspectives on his evolution as a writer and thinker.

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简介：Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Deathis David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of th...   more 籩 relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough.And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living.Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Deathsubtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.   ?less

At the same time : essays and speeches / 1st ed.

作者：  Susan Sontag ; edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump ; foreword by David Rieff.

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简介：　　Selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short storywriters, and novelists, this revised and updated second edition features fifty remarkable stories written by a wide spectrum of stylistically and culturally diverse authors.Russell Banks - Donald Barthelme - Rick Bass - Richard Bausch - Charles Baxter - Amy Bloom - T. C. Boyle - Kevin Brockmeier - Robert Olen Butler - Sandra Cisneros - Peter Ho Davies - Janet Desaulniers - Junot Diaz - Anthony Doerr - Stuart Dybek - Deborah Eisenberg - Richard Ford - Mary Gaitskill - Dagoberto Gilb - Ron Hansen - A. M. Homes - Mary Hood - Denis Johnson - Edward P. Jones - Thom Jones - Jamaica Kincaid - Jhumpa Lahiri - David Leavitt - Kelly Link - Reginald McKnight - David Means - Susan Minot - Rick Moody - Bharati Mukherjee - Antonya Nelson - Joyce Carol Oates - Tim O'Brien - Daniel Orozco - Julie Orringer - ZZ Packer - E. Annie Proulx - Stacey Richter - George Saunders - Joan Silber - Leslie Marmon Silko - Susan Sontag - Amy Tan - Melanie Rae Thon - Alice Walker - Steve Yarbrough　　

Against interpretation and other essays

作者：  苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;黄茗芬译

出版社：麦田出版,2008

简介： 美國公眾的良心、美國最聰明的女人、現今目光最敏銳的論文家──蘇珊?桑塔格，她的專業獲得國際肯定： 1977年美國國家書評人評論組首獎 2000年美國國家書卷獎 2000年耶路撒冷國際文學獎 2003年德國書業和平獎、西班牙阿斯圖里亞斯王子國際合作獎 經過時間洗禮，能保有時代價值的同時，亦創造了未來者，就是經典。 在美國知識分子中，唯有蘇珊?桑塔格的《反詮釋》堪稱為當代經典。 《反詮釋》是處於越戰、嬉皮文化與創新浪潮交織的六○年代，最精髓的文本。 除了她之外，亦不出第二人配稱為當代「感性的最前衛」以及「品味的開創者」。 從1966年出版至今即不斷再版，《反詮釋》早已影響世界各地無數人； 隔了四十二年，終於盼到了繁體中文版付梓。 在一個充斥著假象的世界裡，在真理被扭曲的時代中， 美國最重要的知識分子、最具爭議、最受注目的女作家蘇珊?桑塔格， 冷靜的真知灼見，致力於維護自由思想的尊嚴與風格！ 本書首次發行於1966年，是蘇珊?桑塔格的第一本論述文集，並且因此書奠定了她在美國「現今目光最敏銳的論文家」之崇高地位。桑塔格在作品中表現反對各式各樣的作品詮釋，她嚴格批評冠上社會學、心理學等各種理論的文學詮釋，而強調回歸感官閱讀、讀者真實感受。今天桑塔格的論述方式已經成為西方文學評論的經典。 這部作品收集了桑塔格於1960年代的多篇著名論述，其中有多篇文章已成為當代經典著作之一，影響許多人對藝術和當代文化的思考及態度，集中體現了「新知識分子」、「反詮釋」與以「新感受力」重估整個文學、藝術的革命性姿態，包括最廣為人知的〈論「坎普」札記〉（美國新聞學會選為20世紀100篇最重要文獻之一）、〈反詮釋〉，亦有對沙特、卡謬、李維史陀等作家，對布列松、高達、雷奈等電影大師，以及當代宗教思想、精神分析等具啟發性的分析，最後並收入了1996年西班牙譯文再版時，桑塔格為自己所帶來的「文化旋風」現象所特別為讀者撰寫的後記：〈三十年之後〉。 桑塔格雖已病逝，但她仍然是現今全球「文化研究」領域中的風雲人物，與西蒙?波娃、漢娜?鄂蘭並稱為西方當代最重要的女知識分子，也是現今西方最走紅的「新知識分子」，係現今最受矚目的文化研究學者。 桑塔格的「反詮釋」之號角，是吹響在大眾文化與前衛藝術基礎之上的。理論的生命力，不僅僅在於理論本身的鮮明與響亮，更在於這種理論有著現實的根基，捕捉到了文化潮流的氣味，並能做出精確的描述與測。 「寫作這些文章時的世界已不復存在……表現在這些文章中的品味判斷可能已經普遍了。而在那些判斷之下的價值則不是。」桑塔格如是說。我們在閱讀這些文章時，仍對她把評論對象如剝腸剖肚般一層層由外而內接近真實的努力，有如看見奮戰不懈的勇士般的實踐感到萬分敬佩。 桑塔格所評論的對象，對於本地讀者而言也許日漸熟悉，但我們是否也能看到她特殊且精緻的論述方式，其背後的時代意義與價值？ < TOP>

Where the stress falls

作者：  苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;陈相如译

出版社：大田出版有限公司,2008(民97)

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Illness as metaphor and AIDS and its metaphors

作者：  苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;刁筱华译

出版社：大田出版有限公司,2000(民89年),2008(民97年)重印)

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Under the sign of saturn

作者：  苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)著;廖思逸，姚君伟，陈耀成译

出版社：麦田出版,2012

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Best American Essays of the Century

作者：  Robert

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011年12月

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　　This singular collection is nothing less than a political,spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuousmodern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators,activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group ofworks that are both intimate and important, essays that move frompersonal experience to larger significance without severing theconnection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingwaycovering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s"Letter from Birmingham Jail," these essays fit, in the words ofJoyce Carol Oates, "into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest ing] wherewe've come from, and who we are, and where we are going." Amongthose whose work is included are Mark Twain, John Muir, T. S.Eliot, Richard Wright, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Tom Wolfe,Susan Sontag, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Joan Didion, CynthiaOzick, Saul Bellow, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Hoagland, and AnnieDillard.