April 25, 2012
Can We Ever Know Sontag?
Posted by Emily Greenhouse
“I want to be good.”Susan Sontag’s son, David Rieff, says he may never have published his mother’s journals had it been up to him. But Sontag left little of her legacy to chance. She sold her papers to U.C.L.A., and since her death, in 2004, Rieff has excavated and edited them: the diaries of a dead writer who stood, as long as she could, in willful refusal to die.
“Why?”
“I want to be what I admire.”
“Why don’t you want to be what you are?”
8/7/68, Stockholm
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