Against interpretation and other essays

Notes: Abstract:These essays, which Sontag calls "case studies for an aesthetic," include discussions of Camus, Sartre, Genet, Simone Weil, Ionesco, Brecht, Peter Weiss, Beckett, Arthur Miller, Godard, Resnais, Underground Movies, Psychoanalysis, and Happenings--plus the "Notes on 'Camp'."

Table of Contents: Against interpretation --; On style --; The artist as exemplary sufferer --; Simone Weil --; Camus' Notebooks --; Michel Leiris' Manhood --; The anthropologist as hero --; The literary criticism of Georg Luka´cs --; Sartre's Saint Genet --; Nathalie Sarraute and the novel --; Ionesco --; The death of tragedy --; Going to theater, etc. --; Marat/Sade/Artaud --; Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson --; Godard's Vivre sa vie --; The imagination of disaster --; Jack Smith's Flaming creatures --; Resnais' Muriel --; A note on novels and films --; Piety without content --; Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life against death --; Happenings : an art of radical juxtaposition --; Notes on "Camp" --; One culture and the new sensibility.