Volume 6, Number 10 · June 9, 1966
Swingtime
By Robert Mazzocco
Against Interpretation
by Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 304 pp., $4.95
Nietzsche called George Sand a 'writing-cow.' Judging by Against Interpretation, it seems that the remarkable Susan Sontag deserves no less a tribute. Certainly in her trend-swept chronicle of cultural disturbances, here and in Europe, the ink in Miss Sontag's pen never runs dry. On page after page, ideas, counter ideas, and perhaps even what might be termed non-ideas, squirt, trickle, or smudge. 'Camp sees everything in quotation marks,' observes Miss Sontag. 'It's not a lamp but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but 'a woman.' ' It's not Howard Taubman, it's 'Stanley Kauffmann.' And so forth.
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