Conversations with Susan Sontag

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French German Italian Polish Spanish or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag’s education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament they cover Sontag’s rich career as a distinguished writer filmmaker dramatist and cultural critic.<P>Born in New York City reared in Arizona and California educated at Berkeley Chicago Harvard Oxford the Sorbonne appointed to teaching positions in English philosophy and religion she is a woman whose restlessly independent and resolutely transcultural temperament was already well established when she boxed up the manuscript of <i>The Benefactor</i> and submitted it to Farrar & Straus in 1962. By 1992 when her much acclaimed novel <i>The Volcano Lover: A Romance</i> was published <i>The Benefactor</i> alone