Wie wir jetzt leben

Susan Sontag's stories are about life issues: At 14, she visits Thomas Mann in his Californian exile - with ravishing irony, she describes the vulnerability of her adolescent self. Years later, Sontag learns of a close friend's AIDS diagnosis - her fears and hopes become the chorus of voices in intellectual New York. And long after her famous essays on photography, she revisits the relationship between images and reality-in the story of a bird and a descendant of Noah. This volume brings together important stories by the great American author at last in German - showing her at her most personal.