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1、Susan Sontag The Life of Susan SontaglSusan Sontag was born in New York, N.Y.lSontag grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles California, and entered at the age of fifteen (1948) the University of California at Berkeley.lAfter a year she transferred to the University of Chicago, and graduated in
2、1951. lAt the age of seventeen Sontag married in her sophomore year the 28-year-old Philip Rieff, a sociology instructor; they divorced in the late 1950s. l With Rieff Sontag moved to Boston and continued her studies at Harvard, where she was a Ph.D. candidate from 1955-1957. lSontag died in New Yor
3、k City on 28 December 2004, aged 71.Susan Sontag (1933-2004)lAmerican essayistl Short story writerlA famous novelistlA philosopherlA filmmakerlA political activist lA literary theorist Susan Sontag (1933-2004)lShe is a leading commentator on modern culture, whose innovative essays on such diverse su
4、bjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascist aesthetics, photography, AIDS, and revolution gained a wide attention. CareerlAs a novelist Sontag started her career at the age of 30 with THE BENEFACTOR.lThe heavily symbolic work was partly a pastiche of the 19th-century Bildungsroman, a novel abou
5、t the formation of character. WorkslAgainst Interpretation 反对阐释反对阐释lStyles of Radical Will 激进意志的风格激进意志的风格lOn Photography 论摄影论摄影lAids and Its Metaphors 艾滋病及其隐喻艾滋病及其隐喻lThe Volcano Lover 火山情人火山情人Awards and honorsl1978: National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photographyl1990: MacArthur Fellowshipl199
6、2: Malaparte Prize, Italyl1999: Commandeur de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, Francel2000: National Book Award for In Americal2001: Was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, which is awarded every two years to a writer whose work explores the freedom of the individual in society l2002: Received her second Ge
7、orge Polk Award, for Cultural Criticism for Looking at War, in The New Yorkerl2003: Won the Prince of Asturias Award on Literature l2004: Two days after her death, the mayor of Sarajevo announced the city would name a street after her, calling her an author and a humanist who actively participated in the creation of the history of Sarajevo and Bosnia. Beautyl“Beauty” was published in Vogue magazine in 1975.lSontag tells the history of “beauty” which was defined as generally excellence but which has often been used to characterize female appearance.
