Audiobooks by Susan Sontag

Una introducción concisa y brillante a la obra de Susan Sontag sobre las mujeres, que reúne sus primeros ensayos, varios de ellos inéditos en español, relativos al envejecimiento, la igualdad, la belleza, la sexualidad y el fascismo. Susan Sontag fue una de las pensadoras más formidables, originales e influyentes del siglo pasado. «Las ideas más interesantes son las herejías», sostenía. Y en efecto: sus escritos descartan lo trillado y se niegan a seguir las líneas partidistas. De las mujeres ofrece siete ensayos y debates sobre una amplia gama de asuntos: los desafíos y humillaciones a las que se enfrentan las mujeres a medida que envejecen; la relación entre la liberación de la mujer y la lucha de clases; la belleza, que Sontag llama «esa pócima demasiado pesada de tantos consabidos opuestos»; el feminismo; el fascismo; y el cine. En conjunto, estos análisis, reacios a la fácil categorización, muestran no sólo su curiosidad implacable, su precisión histórica y su vigor político, sino la inimitable mente de Sontag en acción.

Susan Sontag (Author), Mariana De Iraola (Narrator)

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On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susa

Brought to you by Penguin. Bringing together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing, On Women examines the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation. 'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays examine the 'biological division of labour', the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. For any Sontag fan, this collection of lost essays is a revelation into her achievements as an essayist. 'One of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer 'Susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times 'At the time she died, she was America's best-known public intellectual. To my mind, she was also the most exemplary' John Gray, New Statesman ©2023 Susan Sontag (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Susan Sontag (Author), Laurel Lefkow (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Ante el dolor de los demás

Un lúcido ensayo sobre la representación documental e iconográfica del dolor. Veinticinco años después de Sobre la fotografía, Susan Sontag regresó al estudio de la representación visual de la guerra y la violencia. ¿Cómo nos afecta el espectáculo del sufrimiento ajeno? ¿Nos hemos acostumbrado a la crueldad? Para ello, la autora examina la serie de Goya Los desastres de la guerra, las fotografías de la guerra civil estadounidense y de los campos de concentración nazis, y las horribles imágenes contemporáneas de Bosnia, Sierra Leona, Ruanda, Israel y Palestina, así como de la ciudad de Nueva York el 11 de septiembre de 2001. En Ante el dolor de los demás, Susan Sontag aporta una interesante reflexión sobre cómo la guerra se lleva a cabo (y se entiende) en nuestros días. Reseña: «Una penetrante meditación sobre la guerra, la mutilación física y el efecto de las fotografías de guerra.» John Berger

Susan Sontag (Author), Valentina Latyna (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - La enfermedad y sus metáforas | El sida y sus metáforas

Este volumen reúne los ensayos, La enfermedad y sus metáforas y El sida y sus metáforas, que siguen ejerciendo una influencia enorme en la reflexión médica y en las vidas de miles de pacientes y cuidadores. Susan Sontag escribió La enfermedad y sus metáforas en 1978, mientras se trataba de un cáncer. En el libro quiso demostrar cómo los mitos acerca de algunas enfermedades, en especial del cáncer, añaden más dolor al sufrimiento de los pacientes y a menudo los cohíben en la búsqueda de tratamiento adecuado. Casi una década después, con la irrupción de una nueva enfermedad estigmatizada y transida de incertidumbres y «fantasías punitivas», Sontag escribió El sida y sus metáforas, extendiendo los argumentos del libro anterior a la pandemia de sida. Reseña: «Un ensayo luminoso.» Cristina Peri Rossi

Susan Sontag (Author), Valentina Latyna (Narrator)

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Where the Stress Falls: Essays

Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer-more than forty longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideasThirty-five years after her first collection, the classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist chose more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the previous twenty years. "Reading," the first of three sections, includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon-Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second section, "Seeing," she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, "There and Here," Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.

Susan Sontag (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.In "The Aesthetics of Silence," Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an increasingly secular culture. "The Pornographic Imagination" attempts to define and understand the genre of pornography. "What's Happening in America" muses on the state of the country in 1966 when the essay was written, discussing history, politics, and consumerism. Other essays in Syles of Radical Will are "'Thinking Against Oneself': Reflections on Cioran," "Theatre and Film," "Bergman's Persona," "Godard," and "Trip to Hanoi."

Susan Sontag (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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Against Interpretation, and Other Essays

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

Susan Sontag (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is-just a disease. Cancer, she argues, is not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and it is highly curable, if good treatment is followed.Almost a decade later, with the outbreak of a new, stigmatized disease replete with mystifications and punitive metaphors, Sontag wrote a sequel to Illness as Metaphor, extending the argument of the earlier book to the AIDS pandemic.These two essays now published together, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, have been translated into many languages and continue to have an enormous influence on the thinking of medical professionals and, above all, on the lives of many thousands of patients and caregivers.

Susan Sontag (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Sontag's most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America's leading essayists, Sontag's writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. In "Fascinating Fascism," Sontag eviscerates Leni Riefenstahl's attempts to rehabilitate her image after working for Adolf Hitler on propaganda films during World War II. "Approaching Artaud" reflects on the work and influence of french actor, director, and writer Antonin Artaud. The title essay is a study of the life and temperament of Walter Benjamin, who Sontag describes as a sad and lonesome man. The book also includes the essays "On Paul Goodman," "Syberberg's Hitler," "Remembering Barthes," and "Mind as Passion".Susan Sontag's writings are famously full of intellectual range and depth, and are at turns exhilarating, ominous, disturbing, and beautiful. Under the Sign of Saturn manages to touch on all of these notes and more.

Susan Sontag (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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