David Rieff, Susan Sontag, RINATA. DIARI E TACCUINI 1947-1963, 2018

Rinata, the first of the three volumes of the diaries and notes of Susan Sontag of which Nottetempo publishes the Italian edition, captures and reveals the author – among the major thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, while it is fully immersed in a phase of “self-proclaimed”. Beginning with the pen of a voracious and prodigious fourteen-year-old, Rinata ends with the notes of a thirty-year-old Sontag, who lives in New York and begins to be published. The diary of this period is the fascinating story of an intellectual apprenticeship, in search of identity and voice, sustained by a strong will and the deep, rooted desire to be surrounded by literature and culture. As it was written, the diary can be considered as the first book by Susan Sontag, the story of a woman struggling with her own awareness.