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  • Against Interpretation and Other Essays

  • By: Susan Sontag
  • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
  • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic.

Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world.

It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as, her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.
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Disappointing narration

There were some strange and inexplicable mis-readings in this narration. These errors have made it harder to follow a book of what are already complex arguments. For example, in the essay on the films of Bresson, Sontag quotes him as saying that in film "the author takes fragments of reality and arranges them in such a way that their juxtaposition transforms them." But the narrator reads it as "their juxtaposition fails them," which has quite a different meaning!

Another problem with the narration is the pronunciation of foreign words and names. For the book of a critic so interested in French art, it would have been good to get a narrator confident with her French. But this narrator struggles. As just one example, she pronounces "Jeanne" as "Jean", which is a bit confusing in essays that feature both a Jeanne and a Jean. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but I found these mispronunciations distracting.

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