Rereading as Rebirth: Young Susan Sontag on Personal Growth, the Pleasures of Revisiting Beloved Books, and Her Rereading List | Brain Pickings
"In a testament to one of Italo Calvino’s 14 definitions of a classic — “The classics are those books about which you usually hear people saying: ‘I’m rereading…,’ never ‘I’m reading…'” — here are a few of Sontag’s favorite rereads, as recorded in her journal:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Three Lives: Stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha, and the Gentle Lena by Gertrude Stein
- On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
- The Journals of André Gide
- Faust by Goethe
- The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
- The Immoralist by André Gide
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
- Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
- Muirhead’s Guide to London by Findlay Muirhead"
Monday, January 5, 2015
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