Obra imprescindible

This volume brings together the essential work of one of the most transcendental writers and intellectuals of the second half of the 20th century. The cultural critic and historian David Rieff, son of the author, has anthologized the writings that make up this book based, among other criteria, on what Susan Sontag herself considered her most enduring work, as well as on the echo that some of them among the readers of the third decade of the 21st century. The studies, essays, articles, stories and fragments of the novels and newspapers come together in this compilation to offer the most solid and reliable portrait of her exemplary and controversial career. The incorporation of "The Third World of Women" stands out, never before collected in a book. Written half a century ago, it analyzes feminist social and political situations of permanent relevance. This edition also includes unpublished fragments of Sontag's diaries, on the siege of Sarajevo or on the gestation of her latest novels, which shed new light on her sensitivity and thought.