Meh. Like the stars say: "it was ok." This was my first time reading anything by Susan Sontag, and after hearing so much positive about her, I guess I was expecting more. She's lauded as this great social critic, but I read things more insightful than anything in here about 394 times a day around on...
Pozycja obowiązkowa dla "robiących" zdjęcia. (...) "Podobnie jak samochód, aparat fotograficzny sprzedawany jest jako broń drapieżna, zautomatyzowana ile wlezie, gotowa do strzału. Większość ludzi pragnie łatwej, „niewidzialnej" technologii. Producenci zapewniają klientów, że robienie zdjęć nie wyma...
“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.” ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the StarWith those lines, Lispector might have introduced this novel by her countryman. Told from the other side of the grave, we learn of the narrator’s small successes and small failures, ultimately balanced i...
I have not read any of this book apart from the essay on Leni Riefenstahl, which can be found here:http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/33dTexts/SontagFascinFascism75.htm
Enough is written elsewhere to give you a good sense of the novella. There’s equally enough written elsewhere which speaks to this book’s foundational status with regard to magical realism. If asked, I’d only say Pedro Páramo is Our Town as conceived by Rod Serling and written by William Faulkner. ...
I've spent 2-3 hours with this now, spread over a couple of days -- and I'm sorry to say I can't find anything very interesting in it. Maybe it's me... The only essay that grabbed me at all is "on a winded civilization". It has some fine insights on the meta-psychology (I'm just making up a word t...
I cannot express ow much I love this story. I read the original text in Spanish, and if you can manage it I have to recommend it in the original language. There's SO MUCH that really is impossible to translate appropriately- not just because of the specific vocab, but mostly with how he uses words, ...
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