Intellectually speaking. Quite thought provoking, kinda full of hot air. I read a number of this persons essays and didn't agree most of the time. . .still: quite palpable intellect, energetic and always interesting. Except for "Death Kit". Quite the piece of poop.
" John Simon accused Sontag of "a tendency to sprinkle complication into her writing" and of tossing off "high-sounding paradoxes without thinking through what, if anything, they mean." Greil Marcus called her "a cold writer" whose style was "an uneasy combination of academic and hip pedantic, effete, unfriendly." Walter Kendrick found her fiction "dull and derivative. . .However, Sontag sought to challenge conventional thinking. . ."A novel worth reading," she replied, "is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness." She was the cartographer of her own literary explorations.
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