這是蘇珊‧桑塔格2003年的最新論著，也是繼《論攝影》之後，另一部深入探討影像與當代文化關係的力作。桑塔格在書中追溯了現代戰爭與攝影的演進，近代反戰運動的發展，以及影像與新聞、藝術和文化之間的複雜與曖昧。那些源源充斥於現代生活中的戰災影像，究竟是「記錄了」戰爭的原貌，還是「建構了」災難的神話？究竟是激起了我們對暴力的厭惡痛絕，還是磨平了我的同情心？旁觀他人的苦痛究竟是為了謹記教訓，還是為了滿足我們的邪淫趣味？觀看這些凶劫的影像究竟是要令我們堅硬一點以面對內心的軟弱？還是令我們更麻木？或令我們接受生命中不可挽回的創傷？而面對這類由照片所帶來的遠方災痛的知識，我們又該做些什麼？桑塔格這本書不僅讓我們重新思考影像的用途與意義，更直指戰爭的本質、同情的局限，以及良心的責任等重大議題。

A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.

As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.

Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.

《反对阐释》是苏珊·桑塔格最著名的文集之一，是奠定其美国“现有的目光最敏锐的论文家”地位的成名作，评论的锋芒遍及欧美先锋文学、戏剧、电影，其重要性不在于对具体艺术家和作品的分析和评判，而在于它分析和评判的方式。《反对阐释》集中体现了“新知识分子”“反对阐释”与以“新感受力”重估整个文学、艺术的革命性姿态和实绩。

A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects.

Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war?

"For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war."

One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away?

First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.

Primeira coletânea de ensaios de Susan Sontag, Contra a interpretação logo se tornou um clássico moderno. Em nova tradução, a obra traz brilhantes comentários sobre os mais diversos aspectos culturais dos convulsivos anos 1960.

Uma série de discussões provocativas sobre os temas culturais mais prementes da década de 1960, este livro é a coletânea definitiva dos trabalhos mais conhecidos e importantes de Susan Sontag e foi a obra que a consagrou como uma das pensadoras mais incisivas do nosso tempo.
Publicada pela primeira vez em 1966, esta coletânea de ensaios nunca saiu de catálogo e influenciou profundamente muitas gerações de leitores, assim como o campo da crítica cultural no mundo todo. Inclui os textos revolucionários "Notas sobre o camp" e "Contra a interpretação", e também o debate acalorado de Sontag sobre autores como Sartre, Camus, Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, a psicanálise, filmes de ficção científica e o pensamento religioso contemporâneo.
Além da nova tradução, esta edição traz o posfácio "Trinta anos depois", no qual Sontag reafirmou os termos de sua batalha contra os filisteus, contra uma ética frágil e contra a indiferença.

Eleito um dos cem melhores livros de não ficção de todos os tempos pelo The Guardian.

‘An exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear’
Michael Ignatieff, New Republic
‘Whatever Sontag writes is passionate…hers is the satirist’s pity for our ignorance and folly’
Jonathan Keates, Observer
《疾病的隐喻》一书收录了桑塔格两篇重要论文《作为隐喻的疾病》及《艾滋病及其隐喻》，在文章中桑塔格反思并批判了诸如结核病、艾滋病、癌症等如何在社会的演绎中一步步隐喻化，从“仅仅是身体的一种病”转换成了一种道德批判，并进而转换成一种政治压迫的过程。文章最初连载于《纽约书评》，由于反响巨大，此后数年中两篇文章被多次集结成册出版，成为了社会批判的经典之作。

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.