The Benefactor

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book The Benefactor by Susan Sontag, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Susan Sontag ISBN: 9781466853539
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: October 1, 2013
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9781466853539
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: October 1, 2013
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, 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.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.

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The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, 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.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.

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