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La mente despejada: Cuatro ensayos sobre la creación
Un cuarteto ensayístico contra la interpretación en el arte.
«En lugar de una hermenéutica, necesitamos una erótica del arte».
Decía Susan Sontag que el arte ha de ser un acto liberador que permita experimentar la luminosidad del objeto. Interpretarlo, traducirlo, no es más que un acto asfixiante y cobarde. Flash recupera Contra la interpretación, un texto fundamental en la narrativa de la autora, en un momento de actualidad en el que tiene más vigencia que nunca. Y lo acompaña de tres ensayos sobre la creación, Simone Weil, «Los Carnets», de Camus y «Vivre sa vie», de Godard. El resultado es un evocador cuarteto que ofrece a los lectores las claves para guiarse en el mapa de pensamientos de la que ha sido considerada una de las intelectuales más inconformistas del siglo XX.
«Los ensayos de Susan Sontag son grandes interpretaciones, incluso acontecimientos, sobre lo que está sucediendo realmente.» Carlos Fuentes
«No hay muchas fotografías que valgan más que mil palabras (de Susan Sontag).» Robert Hughes
«En lugar de una hermenéutica, necesitamos una erótica del arte».
Decía Susan Sontag que el arte ha de ser un acto liberador que permita experimentar la luminosidad del objeto. Interpretarlo, traducirlo, no es más que un acto asfixiante y cobarde. Flash recupera Contra la interpretación, un texto fundamental en la narrativa de la autora, en un momento de actualidad en el que tiene más vigencia que nunca. Y lo acompaña de tres ensayos sobre la creación, Simone Weil, «Los Carnets», de Camus y «Vivre sa vie», de Godard. El resultado es un evocador cuarteto que ofrece a los lectores las claves para guiarse en el mapa de pensamientos de la que ha sido considerada una de las intelectuales más inconformistas del siglo XX.
«Los ensayos de Susan Sontag son grandes interpretaciones, incluso acontecimientos, sobre lo que está sucediendo realmente.» Carlos Fuentes
«No hay muchas fotografías que valgan más que mil palabras (de Susan Sontag).» Robert Hughes
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Published November 18, 2021
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About the author
Susan Sontag
236 books5,550 followersSusan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and did graduate work in philosophy, literature, and theology at Harvard University and Saint Anne’s College, Oxford.
Her books include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America; a collection of short stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. In 1982, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published A Susan Sontag Reader.
Ms. Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films: Duet for Cannibals (1969) and Brother Carl (1971), both in Sweden; Promised Lands (1974), made in Israel during the war of October 1973; and Unguided Tour (1983), from her short story of the same name, made in Italy. Her play Alice in Bed has had productions in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Holland. Another play, Lady from the Sea, has been produced in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Korea.
Ms. Sontag also directed plays in the United States and Europe, including a staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1993 in besieged Sarajevo, where she spent much of the time between early 1993 and 1996 and was made an honorary citizen of the city.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.
Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography (1978). In 1992 she received the Malaparte Prize in Italy, and in 1999 she was named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (she had been named an Officier in the same order in 1984). Between 1990 and 1995 she was a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
Her books include four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America; a collection of short stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed and Lady from the Sea; and nine works of nonfiction, starting with Against Interpretation and including On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others, and At the Same Time. In 1982, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published A Susan Sontag Reader.
Ms. Sontag wrote and directed four feature-length films: Duet for Cannibals (1969) and Brother Carl (1971), both in Sweden; Promised Lands (1974), made in Israel during the war of October 1973; and Unguided Tour (1983), from her short story of the same name, made in Italy. Her play Alice in Bed has had productions in the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Holland. Another play, Lady from the Sea, has been produced in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Korea.
Ms. Sontag also directed plays in the United States and Europe, including a staging of Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of 1993 in besieged Sarajevo, where she spent much of the time between early 1993 and 1996 and was made an honorary citizen of the city.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Her stories and essays appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary publications all over the world, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Art in America, Antaeus, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Nation, and Granta. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages.
Among Ms. Sontag's many honors are the 2003 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the 2003 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 2001 Jerusalem Prize, the National Book Award for In America (2000), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography (1978). In 1992 she received the Malaparte Prize in Italy, and in 1999 she was named a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (she had been named an Officier in the same order in 1984). Between 1990 and 1995 she was a MacArthur Fellow.
Ms. Sontag died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
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June 17, 2024
El primer ensayo es el más ilustrador de esta colección, poco se puede rescatar del resto si no cuentas con el contexto de las obras citadas.
April 4, 2024
Me parece sumamente fascinante la lucidez con que Susan se expresa en los cuatro ensayos. Igualmente me hizo reflexionar con su mirada al señalar que nuestra cultura, este capitalismo tardío, está basada en el exceso y la superproducción. Acertadamente señala «El resultado es la constante declinación de la agudeza de nuestra experiencia sensorial». No puedo evitar imaginar cuáles serás las formas y los matices que tomará el arte en los años por venir.
September 2, 2024
El primer ensayo es donde me quedó con mejores herramientas para acercarme a un producto cultural y su crítica, los demás me parecen bien, pero no los considero que tengan la misma fuerza que el primero, además de que si no conoces las referencias del que se basan estos, es complicado involucrarse en el camino que Sontag nos quiere llevar.
March 25, 2024
Me deja con una increíble y nueva noción del apreciar y experimentar mi entorno en el arte.
Aunque «Contra la interpretación» fue mi ensayo favorito, los tres restantes los veo como pilares, no solo como una introducción a Susan Sontag sino para desarrollar una intuición crítica.
Aunque «Contra la interpretación» fue mi ensayo favorito, los tres restantes los veo como pilares, no solo como una introducción a Susan Sontag sino para desarrollar una intuición crítica.
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