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"The Benefactor" is Susan Sontag's debut novel, her first novel. Sontag's pioneering work has profound writing, absurd plot, and a mixture of fantasy and reality. This is not a novel in the conventional sense. Sontag borrowed the form of a memoir to complete a biography of a person's life that is a mixture of reality and dreams. It is cleverly conceived, filled with fiction and reality, and is completely natural. It also plants various deep philosophies and thoughts in the smooth writing.

"Styles of Radical Will" is the second important collection of essays in Susan Sontag's life. It is an extension of the theme studied in "Against Interpretation". The content covers various fields such as film, literature, politics, etc. What is quite eye-catching is her analysis of pornographic literary works. This book adheres to Sontag's consistent style, with sharp perspectives and unique insights.

"The Point Is" continues Susan Sontag's consistent acumen and diversity of perspectives. In her latest collection of essays, "The Point Is Where It Matters", she casts her sights on important modern and contemporary poets, writers, dramatists, dancers, and various types of art and literary forms. Due to her unique sensitivity, the significance of her articles is not limited to a certain field. Through the article itself, we see the eternal humanity, the eternal sense of justice, the eternal critical spirit, the eternal passion, and the eternal calmness.

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.

This set is a comprehensive collection of all the works of Susan Sontag, the "first critic on both sides of the Atlantic" and "the conscience of the American public", including her writings, novels and diaries. It is divided into two series of 8 volumes each. The second volume is the literature and diary section. The books include "The Benefactor", "The Death Box", "Heart Questions: Sontag's Short Stories", "Volcano Lover", "Alice in Bed", "In America"; the diary "Rebirth" and "The Heart is a Servant of the Body". This set of books is the largest complete collection of works by contemporary Western first-class thinkers, critics and writers that has been introduced and published in the entire Chinese-speaking world so far. It has milestone significance in China's contemporary ideological circles, academia, criticism, literature and culture, and publishing circles.

The conscience of the American public, one of the most famous critical collections of Sontag, the eternal intellectual idol, a classic work of contemporary social criticism about human epidemics, and a treasure book that many literary youths quote from classics and read on their desks. This book is one of Susan Sontag's most famous literary works. It contains two important essays by Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor" and "AIDS and Its Metaphors". In the article, Sontag reflects on and criticizes how diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and cancer have become metaphorical step by step in social interpretation, transforming from "just a disease of the body" into a process of moral criticism, and then into a process of political oppression. The article was originally serialized in the New York Review of Books. Due to the huge response, the two articles were collected and published in volumes many times in the following years, becoming a classic work of social criticism.

Susan Sontag's landmark collection of essays, "the conscience of the American public" and "the first critic on both sides of the Atlantic", is the famous work that established her status as "the most discerning essayist in existence" in the United States. Together with Beauvoir and Arendt, Susan Sontag is one of the most prestigious contemporary female intellectuals in the West. "Against Interpretation" is one of Susan Sontag's most famous collections of essays. It is the famous work that established her status as "the most discerning essayist in existence" in the United States. The commentary is all over European and American avant-garde literature, drama, and film. Its importance lies not in the analysis and judgment of specific artists and works, but in the way it analyzes and judges. "Against Interpretation" embodies the revolutionary posture and achievements of "new intellectuals" who "oppose interpretation" and re-evaluate the entire literature and art with "new sensibility".