Where the Stress Falls

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Sontag offers considerations of talismanic writers from her own private canon, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Randall Jarrell, Roland Barthes, Machado de Assis, W.G. Sebald, Borges and Elizabeth Hardwick. She also focuses on film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre and explores some of her own commitments: to the work (and activism) of conscience, to the concreteness of historical understanding, and to the vocation of the writer