Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Synopsis

"in the journal i do not just express myself more openly than i could to any person; i create myself. "the first of three volumes of susan sontag's journals and notebooks, reborn (1947-1963) reveals one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, fully engaged in the act of self-invention. Beginning with a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, reborn ends as sontag, age thirty, is finally living in new york as a published writer.