Under the Sign of Saturn

Under the Sign of Saturn is Susan Sontag's third collection of criticism, comprising seven essays. The collection was originally published in 1980. All of the essays were originally published, in a different or abridged form, in The New York Review of Books except for "Approaching Artaud," which was originally published in The New Yorker.

Under the Sign of Saturn
Cover of the first edition
AuthorSusan Sontag
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCriticism
Publication date
1980
Media typePrint
Pages224
ISBN978-0312420086

Contents
  • "On Paul Goodman" (1972)
  • "Approaching Artaud" (1973)
  • "Fascinating Fascism" (1974)
  • "Under the Sign of Saturn" (1978)
  • "Syberberg's Hitler" (1979)
  • "Remembering Barthes" (1980)
  • "Mind as Passion" (1980)

Reception

David Bromwich of The New York Times wrote:

Susan Sontag's third book of essays has meditations on Antonin Artaud, Elias Canetti, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's film about Hitler, along with brief eulogies for Paul Goodman and Roland Barthes. Her subjects bear witness to Miss Sontag's range as well as her diligence. She keeps up - appears, at times, to do the keeping-up for a whole generation - and has long been an effective publicist for the more imposing European offshoots of high modernism. The theater of cruelty, the death of "the author": From ground to summit, from oblivion to oblivion, she covers the big movements and ideas and then sends out her report, not without qualms.[1]

References
  1. Bromwich, David (November 23, 1980). "'Under the Sign of Saturn'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 26, 2016.

Further reading


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