'I intend to do everything...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it
too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly ...everything matters!'
This first selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) takes us from
early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an ast
onishingly affecting, honest self-portrait which is also a fascinating, revealin
g account of an artist and critic being born. We see Sontag honing her skills an
d fashioning herself, by a supreme act of will, into an intellectual force.
