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The latest glimpse we have of her sickbed is “Swimming in a Sea of Death,” David Rieff’s intelligent, disordered account of his mother’s final illness. It is perhaps surprising that Rieff ...
Oct 8, 2019 · Maybe it’s inevitable that after Sontag’s death, the literary persona she spent a lifetime constructing — that rigorous, serious, impersonal self — has been peeled away, revealing the ...
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Jan 8, 2008 · She died, age 71, on Dec. 28, 2004, just nine months after the diagnosis. Mr. Rieff’s memoir is tightly focused on those nine months. We never meet Susan Sontag healthy or happy; instead we ...
Two volumes of Susan Sontag’s diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, have been published, and a third is forthcoming. In the preface to the first volume, published in 2008, under the title ...
Nov 12, 2019 · Susan Sontag in New York on December 2, 1962. Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images. A former schoolmate of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) recalls their first meeting. The then nine-year-old Susan Rosenblatt came up to him on a playground and asked whether he was in the school’s academically gifted program; a transfer student, she had been unable to enroll ...
Children. David Rieff. Website. www .susansontag .com. Susan Lee Sontag ( / ˈsɒntæɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.
Mar 6, 2008 · Sontag experienced three difficult bouts with cancer, succumbing in the last one in the last days of 2004. Rieff has portrayed his mother’s final months in ‘Swimming in a Sea of Death,’ a beautiful and very somber memoir about mortality. I put six questions to David Rieff. 1.
