Susan Sontag. The Woman Who Changed the Culture of the 20th Century

Susan Sontag, an American literary critic, theater and film director, became a true reflection of the era, a prism through which we view the past century, a legend of her generation. The scale of her personality is impressive, the complexity – captivating and provoking denial. Sontag wrote philosophical and critical essays, took to the barricades in Sarajevo, directed a play by Beckett, appeared in a Woody Allen film, and closely interacted with Joseph Brodsky and Andy Warhol. Her life is an endless internal search for the boundary between art and the artificial, metaphor and reality, truth and falsehood. Benjamin Moser's book is a monumental work that took seven years to create. The author painstakingly gathered fragments of Sontag's life story, interviewing about 600 people during his research, including Susan's son David Riff and photographer Annie Leibovitz. Published in the fall of 2019 and already a bestseller on Amazon, "Susan Sontag. The Woman Who Changed the Culture of the 20th Century. Biography" tells about all the facets of a woman who was a true phenomenon in American and world culture.