Saturn Illuminating Destiny (classic Translation)
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The conscience of the American public and eternal intellectual icon Sontag's famous critical essays. A classic work of contemporary literary criticism and a treasure book for young literary and artistic people to refer to. This book is one of Sontag's most famous critical collections. It contains 7 of the most important critical texts published by the writer between 1972 and 1980. In the book, the writer misses Goodman, talks about Artaud's "brutal drama", analyzes Canetti's religiousness, discusses Barthes's aesthetic consciousness, tastes Benjamin's melancholy poetry, and discusses the films of Riefenstahl and Sieberberg. The title of the collection (book title) is taken from a chapter of the same name in the book, which originates from astrology. According to Benjamin, the biographer of the chapter, Saturn is "a planet full of twists and turns and delays." Sontag then used "Saturn temperament" to describe the spiritual outlook of such thinkers represented by Benjamin. In addition to Benjamin, this collection also provides in-depth comments on the works of thinkers and artists whom she cited as role models and colleagues, such as Artaud, Barthes, and Canetti, and vividly depicts their spiritual portraits. Sontag's comments on others have thus become a kind of spiritual autobiography of herself.
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