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A Study of Susan Sontag's Creative Writing from the Perspective of Existentialism

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The creations of American female writer and literary critic Susan Sontag are based on philosophical speculation and rooted in the spiritual soil of existentialism. With the United States as the main writing background, she has made profound observations and analyzes of people, events, and objects in American society, and criticized them either euphemistically or sharply. The influence of existentialism runs through Sontag's works. This book uses existentialism as the main line to interpret Sontag's fictional works, trying to restore Sontag's image that has gradually become blurred amidst the divergent opinions. This book includes Sontag's novels, plays, and short stories into the scope of research, and combs through the specific elucidations of several core concepts of existentialism - existence, freedom, "others", and transcendence - in these works. It points out that in her literary works, Sontag thinks about existence, explores freedom, writes about "others", talks about transcendence, insists on the social function of literature and the social responsibility of writers, and is a worldly intellectual who regards "intervention" as her own responsibility. This book can be used as a reference bibliography for scholars, teachers and students engaged in foreign literature research and teaching, and is also suitable for ordinary readers who love foreign literature.