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Benefactor, The
 

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1 1963-00-00 Farrar, Straus  

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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." Susan 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.
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