The Benefactor

The Benefactor, Susan Sontag's first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world. In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the 'real world.' Sontag's novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimonde that flourished in France until quite recently. More important, The Benefactor is a novel about ideas-especially religious ideas-unlike any other: funny, acrobatic, disturbing, profound.

• Author
• Susan Sontag

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Picador

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-42012-3

• EAN
• 9780312420123

• Genres
• fiction, novels, literature, american, magic, classics, psychology

• Release date
• 2002