Frasi di Susan Sontag
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Susan Sontag è stata una scrittrice e intellettuale statunitense.

✵ 16. Gennaio 1933 – 28. Dicembre 2004   •   Altri nomi Susan Sontagová, സൂസൻ സൊൻടാഗ്
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Susan Sontag frasi celebri

“Il carattere contingente delle fotografie conferma che tutto è caduco.”

libro Sulla fotografia. Realtà e immagine nella nostra società

“Il pittore costruisce, il fotografo rivela.”

Origine: Da Sulla Fotografia.

“Nessuno che ami la vita vorrebbe imitare la sua dedizione al martirio […]. Tuttavia, Simone Weil ci commuove.”

Citazioni di Susan Sontang
Origine: Da un articolo per la rivista The New York Review of Books, 1963; citato in Simona Forti, Il femminile senza idolatrie http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/02/03/il-femminile-senza-idolatrie.html, la Repubblica, 3 febbraio 2009.

Susan Sontag Frasi e Citazioni

“Leggere e ascoltare musica: trionfi del mio uscire da me stessa.”

Origine: Da Pellegrinaggio, traduzione di Paolo Dilonardo, Archinto, Milano, 2004.

“La malattia è il lato notturno della vita.”

Origine: Da Malattia come metafora, traduzione di E. Capriolo, Einaudi, 1979.

“Un giudizio, disse Nicky, è un grido di impotenza. Quando non si può far niente per cambiare una situazione, cosa resta se non giudicarla?”

Origine: Dal racconto Vecchie lagnanze rivisitate, in Io, eccetera, traduzione di Stefania Bertola, 1963.

Susan Sontag: Frasi in inglese

“Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Contesto: To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck. Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.
Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

Origine: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Most of my reading is rereading.”

Origine: Conversations with Susan Sontag

“Desire has no history…”

Susan Sontag libro On Photography

Origine: On Photography

“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?”

Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Contesto: We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? It seems to me that one should always be seeking to talk oneself out of these stark oppositions.

“Elites presuppose masses.”

Susan Sontag libro Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will

“Styles change, style doesn't.”

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. - Linda Ellerbee, Move On: Adventures in the Real World (1991), p. 35 G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 0399136231
Misattributed

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)

“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”

Susan Sontag libro AIDS and Its Metaphors

AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7
AIDS and Its Metaphors was later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.

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