Under the Sign of Saturn explained

Under the Sign of Saturn is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1980. All of the essays originally appeared, in a different or abridged form, in The New York Review of Books except for "Approaching Artaud," which first appeared in The New Yorker.

Contents

• "On Paul Goodman" (1972)
• "Approaching Artaud" (1973)
• "Fascinating Fascism" (1974)
• "Under the Sign of Saturn" (1978)
• "Syberberg's Hitler" (1979)
• "Remembering Barthes" (1980)
• "Mind as Passion" (1980)

Reception

David Bromwich of The New York Times wrote:

Further reading

• News: Allen . James Sloan . Rev. of Under the Sign of Saturn . Saturday Review . 7 . 89– . October 1980 .
• Janes . Regina . Illusions of Decisiveness in Susan Sontag . Salmagundi . 55 . 226–231 . 1982 . 0036-3529 . 40547492 .
• Web site: Kakutani . Michiko . For Susan Sontag, the Illusions of the 60's Have Been Dissipated . . 1980-11-11 . 2018-03-11 . mdy-all .
• Marranca . Bonnie . Review of Under the Sign of Saturn . Performing Arts Journal . 5 . 2 . 123 . 1981 . 10.2307/3245172 . 0735-8393 . 3245172 .
• Scott . Nathan A. . For Interpretation . The American Scholar . 50 . 3 . 400–406 . 1981 . 0003-0937 . 41210750 .
• Woodcock . George . The Public Critics . The Sewanee Review . 89 . 4 . 611–621 . 1981 . 0037-3052 . 27543912 .