Susan Sontag, The Pain of Others
Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was an US writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She was born on January 16th of 1933 in New York City and she died the 28th of December of 2004 also in NYC although she was buried in Montparnasse Cementery (Paris). Her work The Pain of Others talks about Virginia Woolf's reaction on the pictures sent by the Spanish Republican Government during the Civil War against Franco and the fascism. First at all I am surprised, in a good sense, knowing that someone from the States cared about the Civil War in Spain. I am not saying that nobody cared, but it is true that Hitler took all the spotlight about the fascism in Europe and, while being studying at Lycoming College, in a class named US Government and Politics , the professor said the dictatorship of Franco was an "authoritary government". It is good to know that not everybody was so ignorant about this matter since, as far as my intelligence tells me, a government means somebo...
