> She made a splash in the late 60s with a now-forgotten--I don't say
justly
> or otherwise, because I've forgotten it too--essay called "Against
> Interpretation," which had some vogue in literary studies. She wrote
a book
> I liked called Illness as Metaphor, Marta might have something to
say about
> that. She wrotea number of opaque novels reviewed in The New York
Review of
> Each Other's Books. I tried to read Death Kit once and got bored,
but I
> don't like experimental novels ghenerally, even MAsterpieces like
Finnegan's
> Wake. Sontag is certainly the archetype of that kind of figure that
Johanna
> mentions, but that's not necessarily a criticism. Said is as well.
What's
> wrong with being angst-filled, doubt-torn, and anguished? I like,
for
> example, Cockburn, but his robust, doubt-free dogmatism makes one
appreciate
> the hair tearing on the Sontag/Said type. The quote about "but not
for us"
> is from Kafka; I used in in a paper on justice and progress, and the
> reference of the "us" was the subordinate groups struggling against
> domination. jks
>
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Didn't she 'Americanize' Roland Barthes for us the unwashed?
Ian