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Regarding The Pain Of Others
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
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PICADOR FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK
Regarding The Pain Of Others
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS. Copyright © 2003 by Susan Sontag. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.picadorusa.com Picador® is a U.S. registered trademark and is used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Pan Books Limited. For information on Picador Reading Group Guides, as well as ordering, please contact the Trade Marketing department at St. Martin's Press. Phone: 1-800-221-7945 extension 763 Fax: 212-677-7456 E-mail: trademarketmg@stmartins.com Designed by Cassandra J. Pappas Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sontag, Susan, 1933Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag. p. cm. ISBN 0-31242219-9 1. War and society. 2. War photography-Social aspects. 3. War in art—Social aspects. 4. Photojournalism—Social aspects. 5. Atrocities. 6. Violence. I. Tide. HM554.S65 2003 303.6-dc21 2002192527 First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Susan Sontag
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for David
Regarding The Pain Of Others
.. . aux vaincus! —BAUDELAIRE The dirty nurse, Experience —TENNYSON
Susan Sontag
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1 In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow writers were rapt by the advancing fascist insurrection in Spain, the book was couched as the very tardy reply to a letter from an eminent lawyer in London who had asked, "How in your opinion are we to prevent war?" Woolf begins by observing tartly that a truthful dialogue between
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
.
PICADOR FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK
Regarding The Pain Of Others
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS. Copyright © 2003 by Susan Sontag. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. www.picadorusa.com Picador® is a U.S. registered trademark and is used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Pan Books Limited. For information on Picador Reading Group Guides, as well as ordering, please contact the Trade Marketing department at St. Martin's Press. Phone: 1-800-221-7945 extension 763 Fax: 212-677-7456 E-mail: trademarketmg@stmartins.com Designed by Cassandra J. Pappas Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sontag, Susan, 1933Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag. p. cm. ISBN 0-31242219-9 1. War and society. 2. War photography-Social aspects. 3. War in art—Social aspects. 4. Photojournalism—Social aspects. 5. Atrocities. 6. Violence. I. Tide. HM554.S65 2003 303.6-dc21 2002192527 First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Susan Sontag
.
for David
Regarding The Pain Of Others
.. . aux vaincus! —BAUDELAIRE The dirty nurse, Experience —TENNYSON
Susan Sontag
.
1 In June 1938 Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow writers were rapt by the advancing fascist insurrection in Spain, the book was couched as the very tardy reply to a letter from an eminent lawyer in London who had asked, "How in your opinion are we to prevent war?" Woolf begins by observing tartly that a truthful dialogue between