Death Kit - Couverture souple

Sontag, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141190078 ISBN 13 : 9780141190075

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

First published in 1967, Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.

The novel is a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month ago tried to commit suicide. The haphazard events of his life, including killing a railway worker and falling in love with a blind girl, are brought to us through the lens of Diddy's own mind. We follow him through his journey to justify his actions and exorcise his inner demons, but we can see what is happening to Diddy only from inside his head, in the present, and the balance of his mind does not always bear close scrutiny.

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À propos de l'auteur

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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'A Kafka-esque fable. It is a truly awesome book' Boston Globe

Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, thirty-three, divorced and mild-mannered, works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer and feels his life is running down. After a failed suicide attempt, he finds himself on a train and becomes involved with a young blind woman, and drawn towards madness and murder. Diddy's attempts to escape his actions and his demons draw him into an increasingly nightmarish, surreal world where reality and dream bleed into each other. Published in 1967, Susan Sontag's second novel is a blackly disturbing and compelling meditation on life, death and the relationship between them.

'A strange and wonderful book, a ritual exorcising of modern terrors, a dream book of love and death' Vogue

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141190078
• ISBN 13: 9780141190075
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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