This is a quote from the essay Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag.
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Notes on Camp – Summary
Here is the book summary:
‘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 Stevie Smith; 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 outerspace.
Copyright © 1964 by Susan Sontag
More details can be found here on Goodreads and on Storygraph.
