• Reborn

  • Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
  • By: Susan Sontag
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
  • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)

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Reborn

By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
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"I intend to do everything...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!" This first selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) takes us from early adolescence through to when Sontag was in her early 30s. It is an astonishingly affecting and honest self-portrait which is also a fascinating, revealing account of an artist and critic being born. We see Sontag honing her skills and fashioning herself, by a supreme act of will, into an intellectual force.

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As with any journal, not every day is full of gender bending and social revelations. If you want a glimpse into her life this is it. But it's not going to change your life.

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Excellent Narrator

Journals are so hard translate to audio since they're never written in any conversation or narrative style but Jennifer Van Dyck does a superb job providing a perfect balance of melody and intonation to the words and give them life. She also captures the firm, assured, fiercely intelligent and reluctantly emotional quality of Sontag voice. Any further Sontag on Audible should really be read and interpreted by JVD.

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Fantastic effort. One of the few diaries I can listen to in audio form. I sometimes listen to it while following the written version.

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