Notes on Camp

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'

These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

• Author
• Susan Sontag

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 64

• Series
• Penguin Modern

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-241-33970-1

• EAN
• 9780241339701

• Release date
• 2018