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brilliant, extraordinary and deeply thought-provoking

I haven’t felt this excited about a book in a long time!!!

brilliant...

Like a poem, it’s beautiful. And the second part, The Act of Darkness, is so real and honest. It made me think of The Worst Person in the World

The Taiwanese edition is translated by poet/translator Canran Huang , who I think is the ideal choice. In the second essay, America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly, clearly shows Sontag’s dense, winding, and at times deliberately difficult style. Huang manages to preserve that exact texture in translation, carrying over the same sense of complexity and subtle resistance.

Only Susan Sontag could write about photography in this way. The opening essay, In Plato’s Cave, captures with remarkable precision the psychological condition and function of modern photography. I can't imagine that someone could articulate it so accurately.

only halfway through, but I already think this is the best of the three autobiographies

I already had no idea what he was talking about… I can only remember the pineapple and the broom