Still wounded by her breakup with the Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés (“I am frozen, paralysed, the gears are jammed … “), she embarks on a romance with “Carlotta” or “C”, a woman who likes Sontag for her independence but who makes her feel needy (“I must not offer her my suffering … as proof of my love”). Unlike her essays, which warned against looking for hidden depth, her personal prose champions Freudian conjecture: on her dislike of her body (particularly her legs), her desire to please others, her “insatiable” appetite for culture. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag – review
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Still wounded by her breakup with the Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés (“I am frozen, paralysed, the gears are jammed … “), she embarks on a romance with “Carlotta” or “C”, a woman who likes Sontag for her independence but who makes her feel needy (“I must not offer her my suffering … as proof of my love”). Unlike her essays, which warned against looking for hidden depth, her personal prose champions Freudian conjecture: on her dislike of her body (particularly her legs), her desire to please others, her “insatiable” appetite for culture.

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag – review

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