Table of Contents:
  • Memories of a so-called childhood (1933-1944)
  • The invention of Susan Sontag (1945-1948)
  • Intellectual delirium (1949-1957)
  • Paris, a romance (1958-1959)
  • The New York nexus (1959-1963)
  • Camp (1964)
  • Styles of the avant-garde (1965-1967)
  • Radical chic (1967-1969)
  • Behind the camera (1969-1972)
  • In semi-exile (1972-1975)
  • The kingdom of the sick (1975-1979)
  • The last intellectual (1980-1983)
  • Small-scale politics (1984-1988)
  • Return to the Magic Mountain (1989-1992)
  • Theater at the spiritual front (1993-1997)
  • Life and afterlife (1998-2001)
  • The pain of others (2001-2004).