Sontag

[son-tag]

noun

1. Susan, 1933–2004, U.S. critic, novelist, and essayist.

Sontag

/ ˈsɒntæɡ /

noun

1. Susan. 1933–2004, US intellectual and essayist, noted esp for her writings on modern culture. Her works include `Notes on Camp' (1964), `Against Interpretation' (1968), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978), and the novel The Volcano Lover (1992)

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His specialty was portraits, many of them of well-known figures from the overlapping artistic-intellectual circles of which he was a part: William Burroughs, Fran Lebowitz and Susan Sontag, to name a few.

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The book’s final pages reveal Smith continuing to grieve, mourning the loss of other loved ones — her parents, Susan Sontag, Sam Shepard.

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American critic Susan Sontag crowned Krasznahorkai the "master of the apocalypse" after having read his second book "The Melancholy of Resistance" in 1989, the Academy said.

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Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

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Sontag noted that camp functions as “a private code, a badge of identity even.”

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