by Susan Sontag · Winterhouse Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781884381218
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«Literature Is Freedom» is Susan Sontag's acceptance speech for the Peace Prize, published in 2004 by Winterhouse Editions in paperback, in English.
After receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Sontag reflects on the liberating power of literature and its capacity to generate empathy. The text links that claim to her rejection of the US occupation of Iraq and to the historical and philosophical roots of that stance, within a tradition of laureates such as Hermann Hesse or Octavio Paz.
The original speech is from 2003 and this paperback edition, published in 2004, consists of 48 pages.
For readers of Susan Sontag and of the literary essay with a political and ethical dimension.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
