Is there anything Susan Sontag doesnt want to know? In "Swimming in a Sea of Death," Rieff wrestles with how to be a dutiful son to his dying mother while being true to himself. Clear rating. Why people capture imaginations is a mysterious process. I mean, this book may be of interest because people have heard of my mother. 3 David Rieff, "The Cult of Memory: W hen H istor y Does More Harm Than Good ", The Gua rdian, March 2, 1916. Thus the film scholar Don Eric Levine, a close friend of Sontags, is Mosers source for writing that when Jasper [Johns] dumped her, he did so in a way that would have devastated almost anyone. I don't know. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. I don't want to romanticize the end of life, but we never had the kinds of conversations I would've liked to have had with her. You also write that you wish you'd complied more with her wishes during her life and suppressed more of your own. She was a best-selling novelist and a singular presence -- the brainy, glamorous woman who held her own among the testosterone-filled intellectuals of the period. I never got to say goodbye. American non-fiction writer and policy analyst, International Center for Transitional Justice, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, "Soros Foundations Network 2002 Annual Report", "David Rieff, Melbourne University Press", "Muscular Utopianism: I used to be a liberal interventionist. And he told her the bad news. I hope the book is helpful in that way. So I don't buy it. Tradues em contexto de "chronicled her" en ingls-portugus da Reverso Context : Newspapers chronicled her every appearance and activity. She wanted to live at any price. There's no gushing between mother and son or deathbed reconciliations. The world received the diaries calmly enough; there is not a big readership for published diaries. I didn't think it was particularly odd. Her body was just a sore from the inside of her mouth to her toes. By David Rieff. But for the first time, their love affair is laid bare, as Sontag's son David Rieff admitted: "They were the worse couple I've ever seen in terms of unkindness, inability to be nice, held. Publisher: Yale University Press. I have a habit -- a superstition, really -- of not calling people I'm close to while I'm on an assignment that could be dangerous. Rieff, David 1952- views 2,396,422 updated RIEFF, David 1952- (David Sontag Rieff) PERSONAL: Born September 28, 1952, in Boston, MA; son of Philip Rieff (a university professor) and Susan Sontag (a writer and critic). If that's what it is, there's nothing I can do about it. It's a weird thing in this age of the Internet. Usually this means someone who accepts dying and stops fighting it. American writer Susan Sontag was terrified of death. In the literary world, their relationship was a source of fascination: of envy for writers who longed for a protector as powerful and loyal; of gossip for everyone who speculated about what the relationship entailed. Was it a heady experience to get that kind of attention for a boy at your age? The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson explains how they began, and what will happen if the planets great green lung continues to burn. You call her book of photos -- which included pictures of your mother as she was dying and after her death -- "carnival images of celebrity death." David Rieff. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. I had very complicated feelings, as one does about one's parents. Why do people speak to biographers about their late famous friends? Her arm is draped over your shoulder. Chronik eines angekndigten Todes: David Rieff, der Sohn von Susan Sontag, erzhlt von dem Kampf seiner Mutter gegen den Tod. In her later years, she had a relationship with Annie Leibovitz, whom Rieff avoids discussing in his memoir, except for. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. Sontag married Rieff when she was 17 and left him seven years later. She refused to accept any consolation from the hope of an afterlife. He completed college at Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. There seems to be a good deal of bitterness packed into that short sentence. David had a car then, and I remember the four of us driving around Manhattan, four cigarettes going, the car filled with smoke and Josephs deep, rumbling voice and funny, high-pitched laugh. She remembers Sontags big, beautiful smile. She writes of trips that Sontag took her and David on whose sole purpose was enjoyment. David Rieff was born in Boston and attended Princeton University. Are any of us, when its our turn?. Which was certainly true of my mother. She gave me no instructions of any kind. I'm sure you were aware of that mystique as you were growing up, the fact that your mother cut such a distinctive figure. There was much she could have done, and gay activists implored her to do the most basic, most courageous, most principled thing of all, he writes. My mother had a big library. I didn't feel that my interests could be put ahead of that. On her third visit, Nunez met Sontag's son, David Rieff, and shortly thereafter the two began dating. Her memoir, Sempre Susan, chronicles those few years she spent with Sontag and Rieff. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a . When I asked her about one of her early critiques of the novel, in which she wrote, "I could not stand the omnipotent author showing me that's how life is, making me compassionate and tearful," she called that comment "juvenilia," and said, "It's really hard to be nailed to what one wrote 35 or 40 years ago." Jan 2000 - Dec 201516 years. Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio's nationally syndicated program "To the Best of Our Knowledge." Sontag married Rieff when she was 17 and left him seven years later. By the time of the marriage, in 1951, she had discovered that sex with men wasnt so bad. At fifteen, she wrote in her journal of the lesbian tendencies she was finding in herself. I have a library anyway. This is not a portrait of Rieff's relationship with Sontag, though at one point he refers to their "strained and at times very difficult" relations. The occasion is Sontags thrillingly good essay Fascinating Fascism, published in The New York Review of Books in 1975 and reprinted in the book Under the Sign of Saturn, in which she justly destroyed Leni Riefenstahls newly restored reputation, showing her to be a Nazi sympathizer in every bone. December 1985 By David Rieff. You were probably 12 or 13 at the time. There was. While we watch reruns of Law & Order, Sontag seemingly read every great book ever written. So not just her papers, but the books, too? Ad Choices. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was Philip Rieff, author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. PARIS The decision by the U.N. Security Council and NATO to end military operations in Libya on Oct. 31 concludes what appears to be the most . Rieff has at various times been a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research,[2] a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University,[3] a board member of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch,[4] of the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute,[5] and of Independent Diplomat. David Rieff: His mother "was no more reconciled to extinction at 71 than she had been at 42." Sigrid Estrada When she was diagnosed with cancer for the third time, the writer Susan Sontag. ISBN-13: 978-0300182798. The other part -- that she made better use of the world -- I don't think that's self-effacing. He said, "Well, the best place to have this transplant would be at the Fred Hutchinson Center at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle.". It's all at UCLA. And he drops this bombshell: he claims that Rieff did not write his great bookSontag did. Indeed, many of the apparently rebarbative aspects of Sontags personality are clarified in light of the alcoholic family system, as it was later understood, Moser writes, and he goes on: Her enemies, for example, accused her of taking herself too seriously, of being rigid and humorless, of possessing a baffling inability to relinquish control of even the most trivial matters. She followed Rieff to the places of his academic appointments (among them Boston, where Sontag did graduate work in the Harvard philosophy department), became pregnant and had a then perforce illegal abortion, became pregnant again, and gave birth to her son, David. It was a complicated experience. Philip Rieff is remembered todayif at allas the one-time husband of his former student Susan Sontag, and a crankily conservative observer of American society, which he saw as violent, stupid . . It is a book about dying, grieving and what it means to survive the death of a loved one. How many of us, who did not start out with Sontags disadvantages, have taken the opportunity that she pounced on to engage with the worlds best art and thought? In an essay from 2005, Wayne Koestenbaum wrote, At no other writers name can I stare entranced for hours on endonly Susan Sontags. Can you explain why they were difficult? Moser wheels on witness after witness who testifies to Sontags neglect of the baby and child David, and to her sometimes unwinning behavior toward him when he was an editor at Farrar, Straus. So she was going to fight for every breath, no matter how much suffering that entailed. I agree with you entirely that she captured the imagination of a certain time and became famous, and then I think did really good work and backed it up. All public knowledge, to be sure, but who the hell am I to go advertising other peoples sexual habits? She knocked on the door, and who opened the door? Your book is remarkably self-effacing. Once she died, I asked the other people in the room to leave. When she said, "I'm not interested in quality of life," she meant it. In fact, she sometimes went further, claiming to have written the entire book herself, every single word of it. I took this to be another one of her exaggerations.. So after I'm gone, nobody is going to be able to publish them. The early years of Sontags marriage to Rieff are the least documented of her life, and theyre a little mysterious, leaving much to the imagination. $18.99 $25.00 Save 24% Current price is $18.99, Original price is $25. But I know this argument very well. Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. David Rieff discusses "Divorcing" by Susan Taubes, an autobiographical novel with phantasmagoric components: the reimagined end of a marriage. They divorce in 1958. "Way to never give upBelieve & Achieve!! I don't know if I would have destroyed them or simply left them for other people to deal with after I'm dead. Your mother was an iconic figure in intellectual circles, not just because of what she wrote but how she looked and acted. But that's impossible if you decide not to acknowledge the fact of dying. . Oh, you never set the record straight. Moser takes Sontag at her word and is as unillusioned about her as she is about herself. Married Alison Douglas Knox, December 31, 1963. By David Rieff Trade Paperback LIST PRICE $18.95 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today! David Rieff ( / rif /; born September 28, 1952) is an American non-fiction writer and policy analyst. A journalist who has frequented global hotspots and an analyst of humanitarian policy (as well as curator of the collected and posthumous writings of his mother, Susan Sontag), Rieff advances his. Well, I'm an atheist too; if anything, more militant than my mother. When I say "in spite of," what I mean is that when I saw that I still wanted to write in my early 20s, I thought very consciously, "Oh, if I become a writer, I will spend the first 10 years of my career having anyone who reviews a book of mine say, 'David Rieff, Susan Sontag's son.'" Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. How the seedling became the majestic flowering plant of Sontags maturity is an inspiring storythough perhaps also a chastening one. made Susans career possible. I can't stop people from writing biographies after her death, any more than she could stop any number of biographies, one of them extremely disobliging, from appearing during her lifetime. I would have liked to have gone beyond those before she left us. But in her lifetime, long before she was diagnosed with MDS, my mother decided they were going to be public. . But she didn't want to hear it. If there's one thing I'm vain about, it's that I'm willing to stare facts in the face. This was in the mid-'70s, a time when American physicians tended to lie to their patients and tell family members something closer to the truth. As you say, lots of students simply will ignore/be indifferent to the whole debate. His father, the sociologist Philip Rieff, wrote his own masterpiece, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud." Twice before, your mother had cancer and survived. David Rieff is a passionate fan of Early music, and his choices include the 16th-century composer Orlando di Lassus, and Alfred Deller singing Purcell. The idea that one good death fits all seems incredibly reductive to what human beings are all about. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! D avid Rieff Granta, 16.00 IN TRYING to pay a fitting tribute to his mother, Susan Sontag, David Rieff offers a partial and self-centred account of her final years. They weren't mine to keep. I've heard that your mother had a wonderful and vast collection of books in her apartment. I interviewed your mother a couple of times late in her life. Her novel The Volcano Lover (1992), a less universally appreciated work, became a momentary best-seller. We had a complicated relationship. ), this time focusing on the global food crisis. I've also met lots of people who aren't. Her father, Jack Rosenblatt, the son of uneducated immigrants from Galicia, had left school at the age of ten to work as a delivery boy in a New York fur-trading firm. . But there isnt much of a living in the kind of things that she wrote. The dedication to The Volcano Lover reads For David, beloved son, comrade. Not many parents think of their offspring as comrades. At the age of 82, after two . . I never thought about it. CAREER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., One time, weren't the odds incredibly stacked against her? I'm not a confessional writer. He published every one of her books. Certainly, this doesnt reflect well on Rieff, but it hardly proves that Sontag wrote The Mind of the Moralist. Mosers interviews with contemporaries who knew that Sontag was working on the book dont prove her authorship, either. "My father was to the right of. To be blunt, I took off her shirt. Cremation seemed to confirm extinction. David Rieff @davidrieff Feb 03, 2023 @timothycbaker @keatsandchapman Point taken. The erudition for which she is known was part of a passion for culture that emerged, like a seedling in a crevice in a rock, during her emotionally and intellectually deprived childhood. Rieff, Philip 1922-2006 PERSONAL: Born December 15, 1922, in Chicago, IL; died of heart failure, July 1, 2006, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Joseph Gabriel and Ida Rieff; married Susan Sontag, 1950 (divorced, 1958); married Alison Douglas Knox, December 31, 1963; children: (first marriage) David. eBook. In his account of Sontags worldly success, Moser shifts to a less baleful register. November 19, 2015 Letters From the December 7, 2015, Issue Quantum of. When the diaries resume, it is in a mood of settled frustration with the misalliance. She was somebody for whom extinction -- death -- was unbearable. What I'm saying is that the right way for one person to die may not be the right way for another person to die. And she didn't embargo them. Given who she was, there was no other way. Sontag would later write in a more accessible, though never plain-speaking, manner. They are specks on it. She does not suppress her glimpses of Sontag when she was not all rightwhen she was at her most painfully fearful and miserable and impossible. First of all, I think that argument does a real disservice to human variety. It's a long shot: an adult stem-cell transplant, a bone-marrow transplant. Born in 1952, Mr. Rieff was brought to New York at age 6 from California, after his parents went through an acrimonious divorce. ", "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. Besides his wife and son, of New York, a journalist and author who specializes in foreign affairs, Dr. Rieff is survived. She was happy to trade in her jeans for silk trousers and her loft apartment for a penthouse. She knew more people, did more things, read more, went to more places (all this apart from the enormous amount of writing she produced) than most of the rest of us do. David Rieff. And that may be because I didn't want to have a fight with somebody, because I didn't want to offend somebody, because I thought I'd hurt somebody's feelings, or because I just preferred that something not be known. Vanity Fair Archive. So I'm not sure it's faith vs. atheism. His second wife and widow Alison Douglas Knox died December 12, 2011. It was. Yes, the library as well. They were. The physician was not a very empathetic guy. Rieff is a distinguished author in his own right. Eventually, I did enough work so people got bored connecting me to my mother. No, I think I became a writer in spite of her. That doesn't seem right to me. There was tremendous intellectual affinity between Sontag and Rieff. And when she spoke, she spoke about the distant past -- about her parents, about people she was involved with 30 years before. It will be interesting to see whether Benjamin Mosers authorized biography, Sontag: Her Life and Work (Ecco), which draws heavily on the diaries, makes more of a stir. Did not telling her the truth about her condition take a toll on you? As. I felt that I had to do that, whatever my own opinion was. If friends cannot control their ambivalence, what about the enemies who cannot wait to take their revenge? Do you think her great achievement was the fiction she wrote in her last years? Are any bluntly Jewish appellations fabulous? I mean, she didn't want to be lied to, but she wanted to live. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. David Rieff, a New York-based journalist, is the author of eight books. But I don't think she would have repudiated a lot of the essays she wrote. [Pause] I took it for granted in the world that I grew up in. That Matthiessen was queer. David, the. Welcome; Issues; And yet, Nunez writes, I considered meeting her one of the luckiest strokes of my life., In Swimming in a Sea of Death, David Rieffs brilliant, anguished memoir of Sontags last year, he writes of the avidity for life that underlay her specially strong horror of extinctiona horror that impelled her to undergo the extreme sufferings of an almost sure-to-fail bone-marrow transplant rather than accept the death sentence of an untreated (and otherwise untreatable) form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome. You say your mother had a horror of cremation. He also edited her journals and notebooks, which contained the following rules. But he says, I am anything but certain that I did the right thing, and, in my bleaker moments, wonder if in fact I might not have made things worse for her by endlessly refilling the poisoned chalice of hope., In the end, Rieff realizes that the story he is telling is about ends, the brute fact of mortality. Sontag was not alone in her bafflement about extinction. So what do you do, as the person who's close to someone who wants to live at any price, when you think this fight isn't worth it? She was the smartest girl in the class, but she couldnt figure out why shewehad to die. She flew back to New York when it was clear the leukemia had become full-blown and the transplant had failed, and spent the last six or seven weeks of her life in Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. But that doesn't mean that was what was most valuable about her work. David Rieff is an American non-fiction writer and policy analyst. A lot of what I describe in this book has nothing to do with the particular personality of David Rieff, or the particular personality, let alone celebrity, of Susan Sontag. Aren't you being awfully hard on yourself? My father had a big library. Rieff (who did not credit her) got a job at Brandeis University, and in the. The book is so excellent in so many ways, so complete a working-out of the themes that marked Susan Sontags life, that it is hard to imagine it could be the product of a mind that later produced such meager fruits, Moser writes. He mocks his fake upper-class accent and fancy bespoke-looking clothes. It's not as if I burned anything. For the next four decades, Sontags life was punctuated by a series of intense, doomed love affairs with beautiful, remarkable women, among them the dancer Lucinda Childs and the actress and filmmaker Nicole Stphane. The journals document, sometimes in excruciatingly naked detail, the torment and heartbreak of these liaisons. She reveled in being; it was as straightforward as that. In work, I dont want to be reduced to my life. It's too obvious not to be true. I came across a photo of you and your mother that ran many years ago in Vogue magazine. However, Mosers exasperation with Sontag is fuelled by something that lies outside the problematic of biographical writing. So why should she have made our lives easier by going gracefully? Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21. candidate who comes to New York to seek her fortune among the Partisan Review intellectuals has something of the atmosphere of nineteenth-century narratives about the rise of famous Parisian courtesans. Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947 - 1963, the newly published intimate ruminations of Susan Sontag. 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