Who's susan sontag?

Susan sontag (English original name: susan sontag,193365438+1October16—200465438+February 28th), female, is an American writer and art critic. 1933 was born in new york, USA, and graduated from the University of Chicago. His works mainly include Opposing Interpretation, Style of Radical Will, Photography and so on. Sontag has a wide range of writing fields and is famous in the literary world for his keen insight and extensive knowledge. In 2000, her historical novel In America won the National Book Award. In addition to writing novels, she also created a large number of critical works, involving criticism of the times and culture, including photography, art, literature and so on. Known as "the conscience of the American public."

Because of her extensive knowledge, some scholars regard susan sontag as a "saint", but it can also be seen from the side that she is knowledgeable and her works are improving. Susan sontag's novels can be divided into early and late periods. Early novels have the following characteristics:

First, oppose interpretation, that is, oppose the traditional concept of taking form as an accessory to content;

Secondly, the novel shows a silent aesthetic, that is, it beats the reader with strange scenes and urges the reader to enter a silent state; What can't be directly expressed can be better presented to readers through silent expression.

Susan sontag, formerly known as SusanRosenblatt, is the biological daughter of JackRosenblatt and his ex-wife MildredJacobsen. Jack, a Jewish businessman engaged in fur business, died of tuberculosis in China when Sontag was 5 years old. Mildred remarried to Nathan Sonntag, so Susan changed her father's surname.

Sontag is a third generation Lithuanian-American. Sontag grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She skipped the third grade and graduated from high school at the age of 15 and entered the University of California at Berkeley. After a semester in Berkeley, he transferred to the University of Chicago and obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.

At the age of 24, he obtained a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard University, and then went to Saint Anne College of Oxford University and Paris University, where he mainly studied philosophy, literature and theology. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Sontag married Philip Lev, and the marriage ended eight years later. Their son David Reeve later became a writer and his mother's editor.

1989 Sontag and photographer annie leibovitz started a new relationship, but it ended one year before Sontag died, but they were still friends when Sontag died. Sontag died of acute myeloid leukemia on February 28th, 2004. For more than 30 years, she has been fighting different forms of cancer, including breast cancer and uterine cancer.