Geburtstag: 16. Januar 1933
Todesdatum: 28. Dezember 2004
Andere Namen: Susan Sontagová, സൂസൻ സൊൻടാഗ്
Susan Sontag, geborene Rosenblatt, war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Essayistin, Publizistin und Regisseurin. Sie war bekannt für ihren Einsatz für Menschenrechte sowie als Kritikerin der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse und der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Wikipedia
„Ich war nicht überall, aber es steht auf meiner Liste.“
("I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.") - "Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker, 31. Oktober 1977, auch in I, Etcetera, 1977;
“Her exemplary effort to swallow the world”: Wasserman on Sontag, yesterday in Berlin http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/01/her-exemplary-effort-to-swallow-the-world-wasserman-on-sontag-yesterday-in-berlin, Stanford University, 30. Januar, 2015
("Not only is Fascism (and overt military rule) the probable destiny of all Communist societies — especially when their populations are moved to revolt — but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face.") - Ansprache, Town Hall, New York, 6. Februar 1982, "Susan Sontag Provokes Debate on Communism" http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-communism.html, The New York Times, 27. Februar 1982, p. 27
("The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.") - Partisan Review (Winter 1967), p. 57 Notes on Susan http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/aug/16/notes-on-susan, The New York Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger, 2007
„Ich nenne mich gerne die weltgrößte Germanistin, die kein Deutsch spricht“
Susan Sontag ist tot https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/literatur-susan-sontag-ist-tot-a-334724.html, 28.12.2004, Der Spiegel; Susan Sontag gestorben https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/literatur-susan-sontag-gestorben-1196786.html, 29.12.2004, FAZ; Das Glück, ein Fremder zu sein https://www.hagalil.com/archiv/2004/12/sontag.htm, 29.12.2004, haGalil
„Du musst tot sein. Wenn Du den Preis gekriegt hast, danach ist Schluss“
auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse, Susan Sontag ist tot https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/literatur-susan-sontag-ist-tot-a-334724.html, 28.12.2004, Der Spiegel; Susan Sontag gestorben https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/literatur-susan-sontag-gestorben-1196786.html, 29.12.2004, FAZ
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Quelle: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Quelle: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
„A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.“
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
Kontext: A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted — made cynical, superficial — by this understanding.
„Depression is melancholy minus its charms.“
— Susan Sontag, buch Illness as Metaphor
Quelle: Illness as Metaphor
— Susan Sontag, buch Against Interpretation
"Against Interpretation" (1964), p. 8
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
"The Imagination of Disaster" from Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966), p. 212
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
„I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.“
"Unguided Tour", in The New Yorker (31 October 1977), final lines; also in I, Etcetera (1977)
Kontext: A curious word, wanderlust. I'm ready to go.
I've already gone. Regretfully, exultantly. A prouder lyricism. It's not Paradise that's lost.
Advice. Move along, let's get cracking, don’t hold me down, he travels fastest who travels alone. Let's get the show on the road. Get up, slugabed. I'm clearing out of here. Get your ass in gear. Sleep faster, we need the pillow.
She's racing, he's stalling.
If I go this fast, I won't see anything. If I slow down —
Everything. — then I won't have seen everything before it disappears.
Everywhere. I've been everywhere. I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Land's end. But there's water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue.
The end of the world. This is not the end of the world.
„My library is an archive of longings.“
Quelle: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
„To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.“
— Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Quelle: Regarding the Pain of Others
— Susan Sontag, buch On Photography
Variante: to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Quelle: On Photography
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