The Remaking of Susan Sontag | The New Republic

The great tension in Sontag’s life lay in her enduring desire for reinvention.

The Remaking of Susan Sontag The great tension in Sontag’s life lay in her enduring desire for reinvention. Bob Peterson/Time Life/Getty “I have always liked to pretend my body isn’t there,” Susan Sontag once wrote. But no matter how hard she tried, it never went away. She was stunningly inattentive to her physical self—surprised by her own menstrual cycles, shocked that childbirth was painful, often forgetful about showering or changing her clothes. “She was as uncomfortable with her body as she was serene about her mind,” observed her son, David Rieff. She had a fraught relationship to physi

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