Against Interpretation

একজন ভালো আর্ট/লিটারেচার ক্রিটিকের প্রথম যোগ্যতা হচ্ছে আমাদের সেন্সিবিলিটিকে ধাক্কা দেওয়া। সিক্সটিজে লেখা এস্যেগুলো আজকেও যখন ধাক্কা দেয়, বিশেষত, অধিকাংশ আলোচ্যগুলির সাথে আপনি ইতমধ্যেই পরিচিত তখন বলা যায় তিনি একজন প্রথম শ্রেণীর ক্রিটিক।

OK. I picked this up because I really wanted to read “Notes on ‘Camp.'” Because I love camp. Duh. And I loved “Notes on ‘Camp'” and I loved a few other essays, the ones I understood. A lot of these essays are reviews and/or critiques of French films and philosophical treatises that I had not even heard of, let alone read. Sontag is brilliant obviously and I'm sure all the essays were good–they were readable and I felt like I got something out of them, even if I literally didn't know what she was talking about. But unless you, like me, feel extreme reluctance at book abandoning, you could probably just read “Notes on ‘Camp'” online somewhere and not read reviews of a bunch of foreign films from the '60s. Unless you like foreign films from the '60s, in which case, pick this up immediately.