Under the Sign of Saturn

Book • 1972
This collection of essays, published in 1980, features Sontag's meditations on several key figures of modern culture and thought.

The essays originally appeared in different or abridged forms in *The New York Review of Books* and *The New Yorker*.

Sontag delves into the lives and works of Antonin Artaud, Elias Canetti, Leni Riefenstahl, Walter Benjamin, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, among others.

Her writing reflects her broad range and diligence in covering significant movements and ideas in high modernism.

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