(P/B) WHERE THE STRESS FALLS

Παρουσίαση

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', 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, 'Seeing', she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. 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. (From the publisher)

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READING
A poet's prose
Where the stress falls
Afterlives: the case of Machado de Assis
A mind in mourning
The wisdom project
Writing itself: on Roland Barthes
Walser's voice
Danilo Kis
Gombrowicz's "Ferdydurke"
Pedro Paramo
DQ
A letter to Borges
SEEING
A century of cinema
Novel into film: Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
A note on Bunraky
A place for fantasy
The pleasure of the image
About Hodgkin
A lexicon for "Available Light"
In memory of their feelings
Dancer and the dance
Lincoln Kirstein
Wagner's fluids
An ecstasy of lament
One hundred years of Italian photography
On Bellocq
Borland's Babies
Certain Mapplethorpes
A photograph is not an opinion. Or is it?
THERE AND HERE
Homage to Halliburton
Singleness
Writing as reading
Thirty years later...
Questions of travel
The idea of Europe (one more elegy)
The very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe (an interlude)
Answers to a questionnaire
Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo
"There" and "Here"
Joseph Brodsky
On being translated
Acknowledgments