Under the Sign of Saturn
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Under the Sign of Saturn was Susan Sontag's third collection of criticism, consisting of seven essays. The collection was originally published in 1980. All of the essays were originally published in The New York Review of Books except for "Approaching Artaud", which was originally published in The New Yorker.
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Contents
(Dates are for original publication in print.)
- (21-Sep-1972) "On Paul Goodman"
- (19-May-1973) "Approaching Artaud"
- (06-Feb-1975) "Fascinating Fascism" (about Leni Riefenstahl and her photographs of the Nuba)
- (12-Oct-1978) "Under the Sign of Saturn" (about Walter Benjamin)
- (21-Feb-1980) "Syberberg's Hitler" [1]
- (15-May-1980) "Remembering Barthes"
- (25-Sep-1980) "Mind as Passion" (about Elias Canetti)
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