Debriefing: Collected Stories

"Debriefing: Collected Stories" by Susan Sontag, published by Picador. A collection of one of our most powerful intellectual’s short fiction Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag’s shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private griefs and fears, lets characters take her where they will. The result is a collection of remarkable brilliance, versatility, and charm. Sontag’s work has typically required time for people to catch up to it. These challenging works of literary art—made more urgent by the passage of years—await a new generation of readers. This is an invaluable record of the creative output of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power. ** Review Praise for Susan Sontag “The cumulative effect of her writing is to stimulate the flow of argument. . .you might say she has diverted the mainstream; her private islands of thought now look like the territory on which we've always lived. . .She stands for what is articulate, independent, exploratory: for self as a work in progress. ―Hilary Mantel, The Los Angeles Times Book Review Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag 'intellectual.' ― Adam Begley, The New York Observer [Sontag is] one of our very few brand-name intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment. ― Sven Birkets, The Yale Review “We wouldn't recognize our postwar intellectual history without Susan Sontag.” ― Talk Magazine About the Author Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including the groundbreaking collection of essays, Against Interpretation (FSG, 1966), and of four novels, including In America (FSG, 2000), which won the National Book Award. Benjamin Taylor is the author of his family memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House , as well as Proust: The Search in the Yale Jewish Lives series; Naples Declared , a travel memoir; and the award-winning novels, Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even . He edited Saul Bellow: Letters and There Is Simply Too Much to Think About , Bellow’s collected nonfiction. Taylor is a past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Book details: published 2017. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.