Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
Als Hippolyte in jungen Jahren eine Reihe verstörender Träume hat, fasst er einen folgenschweren Entschluss: Anstatt seine Träume anhand seines Lebens zu deuten, beginnt er sein Leben an seinen Träumen auszurichten. Es folgt eine Art psychischer "Grand-Tour", in der Hippolytes heftige Träume immer weniger von seinen Erlebnissen in der wirklichen Welt zu unterscheiden sind... Die fiktiven Memoiren des alternden Hippolyte waren Susan Sontags Romandebüt.
The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte,
The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include
On Photography,
Regarding the Pain of Others and
At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including
The Volcano Lover and
In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and 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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Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She is also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and 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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Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world'.
