Book
At the same time : essays and speeches
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.
Physical Description
xvii, 235 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
Literature and politics are inextricably intertwined and unified by moral purpose in this powerful collection of pieces (a couple not previously published in English or at all). Sontag considers the works of writers from the revolutionary Victor Serge to the little-known Soviet novelist Leonid Tsypkin, to major figures such as Nadine Gordimer, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak. She makes a brilliant case for the vital importance of translation. Sontag also fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the appalling torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib.
Contents
- An argument about beauty
- 1926...Paternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke
- Lovingly Dostoyevsky
- Double destiny: on Anna Banti's Artemisia
- Unextinguished: the case for Victor Serge
- Outlandish: on Halldor Laxness's Under the glacier
- 9.11.01
- Few weeks after
- One year after
- Photography: a little Summa
- Regarding the torture of others
- Conscience of words
- World as India
- On courage and resistance
- Literature is freedom
- At the same time: the novelist and the moral reasoning.