TY - BOOK AU - Sontag,Susan TI - Against interpretation, and other essays SN - 0312280866 : AV - PN771 .S62 2001 PY - 2001///, c1966 CY - New York PB - Picador USA KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism N1 - Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966 N2 - First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous influence in America and abroad on thinking about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay and the famous "Notes on Camp," "Against Interpretation includes original and provocative discussions of Sartre, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thinking. This edition features a new afterword by Sontag ER -