You also write that you wish you'd complied more with her wishes during her life and suppressed more of your own. ISBN-13: 978-0300182798. While pregnant with their son, David, she began co-writing Rieff's first book, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. "At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me 'Sweet.'. Nevertheless, he has so thoroughly convinced himself of it that when he quotes from The Mind of the Moralist he performs the sleight of hand of saying she writes or Sontag notes. By Mosers lights, every writer who has been heavily edited can no longer claim to be the author of his work. Did you feel privileged? It's funny. Whatever the answer is in the higher reaches of philosophy, the particular instance of Nunezs violation provides a valuable corrective to Mosers bleak portrait. Are any bluntly Jewish appellations fabulous? But it does raise the question: Without the consolation of religion, does the prospect of dying lead to dread? Why do you think she was so dismissive of her essays? Rieff, in his introduction to the second volume of the diaries (As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh), writes that Sontag tended to write more in her journals when she was unhappy, most when she was bitterly unhappy, and least when she was all right., Nunezwho comes across as modest and likablegives us wonderful glimpses of Sontag when she was all right. She was somebody for whom extinction -- death -- was unbearable. The occasion is Sontags thrillingly good essay Fascinating Fascism, published in The New York Review of Books in 1975 and reprinted in the book Under the Sign of Saturn, in which she justly destroyed Leni Riefenstahls newly restored reputation, showing her to be a Nazi sympathizer in every bone. I had to change planes at Heathrow Airport in London, so I called my mother. Now republished by New York Review Books, it was first released just weeks before its author's early death in 1969. Still, throughout our interview, he displayed his own brand of remarkable candor. I came across a photo of you and your mother that ran many years ago in Vogue magazine. I think it would have been grotesque of my mother to have become a person of faith purely in the interest of consoling herself. I'm sure you were aware of that mystique as you were growing up, the fact that your mother cut such a distinctive figure. The writer Judith Grossman, who knew Sontag slightly at Oxford, remembered her as the dark prince, who strode through the colleges dressed entirely in black. Also, I wasn't a prodigy. By the time of Susans birth, in 1933, he had his own fur business and was regularly travelling to Asia. It is an unholy practice, the telling of a life story that isnt ones own on the basis of oppressively massive quantities of random, not necessarily reliable information. The wonderful doctor and writer Jerome Groopman likes to quotes Kierkegaard that life can only be understood retrospectively but has to be lived prospectively. I didn't think it was particularly odd. Her body was just a sore from the inside of her mouth to her toes. One day, she had had enough. By David Rieff. . Do you see it that way? Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz opens up about her longtime partner, essayist Susan Sontag, in a conversation with "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie . I don't know. It is this fundamental belief - that to remember is a moral act - that David Rieff explores in his most recent book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies. She was happy to trade in her jeans for silk trousers and her loft apartment for a penthouse. December 1985 By David Rieff. So I don't think we can just take the Christian or the Islamic model and say those visions of a personal afterlife are what religious faith is. There is, but it's contained in that sentence. As. He mocks his fake upper-class accent and fancy bespoke-looking clothes. In the early 1950s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Taubes and her then husband, the rabbi and philosopher of ideas Jacob Taubes, were the closest friends of my parents, Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff. In addition to her graduate work, and caring for David, Sontag helped Rieff with the book he was writing, which was to become the classic Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. She grew increasingly dissatisfied with the marriage. I would've liked to have said certain things to her. And he drops this bombshell: he claims that Rieff did not write his great bookSontag did. That Matthiessen was queer. How many times have I reviled myself for that, which is only a little less offensive than my habit of name-dropping (how many times did I talk about Allen Ginsberg last year, while I was on Commentary?).. She was fully aware that she would not have had the life she had if he had not taken her under his protection when he did. And he told her the bad news. By David Rieff. Despite his initial support of the tenets of Liberal internationalism, he was critical of American policies and goals in the Iraq War. By David Rieff. He completed college at Princeton University, graduating with an A.B. "My mother was a leftist," he said. November 11, 2005. There was. He rightly identifies Mildreds remarriage to a man named Nathan Sontag, in 1945, as a seminal event in Susans rise to stardom. They are what you could call her years in the wilderness, the years before her emergence as the celebrated figure she remained for the rest of her life. So the suffering was extraordinary. And I didn't want to go through that. To be blunt, I took off her shirt. Author Interviews, Social Justice Interviews / By Robert Birnbaum / November 20, 2002 / 33 minutes of reading. "My father was to the right of. He has also been a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science & Religion. There are certainly religious traditions that don't believe in an afterlife. I can't stop people from writing biographies after her death, any more than she could stop any number of biographies, one of them extremely disobliging, from appearing during her lifetime. So they were going to appear at some point anyway. I knocked on the door. Sontags pencilled notes in a banal brochure of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society inspire Rieffs reflection on that astonishing mix of gallantry and pedantry that was one of her hallmarks. He notes my own grave failings as a person (above all, I think, my clumsiness and coldness). The voices of the two characters fuse in a terrifyingly assonant duet. But she was one to whom it was just terrible news. Sontag was 24 and living in Paris, having left her husband, the sociologist Philip Rieff, and their young son behind in the States. She didn't want to be an essay writer, but she continued to write essays, although they came harder and harder throughout her career. It wasn't terrible. "[1], G. John Ikenberry, reviewing Rieff's 2005 book At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention for Foreign Affairs, called him "one of the most engaging observers of war and humanitarian emergencies in such troubled places as Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq". After giving the essay its due, Moser suddenly swerves to the side of the poet Adrienne Rich, who wrote a letter to the Review protesting Sontags en-passant attribution of Riefenstahls rehabilitation to feminists who would feel a pang at having to sacrifice the one woman who made films that everybody acknowledges to be firstrate. Moser holds up Rich as an intellectual of the first rank who had written essays in no way inferior to Sontags and as an exemplar of what Sontag might have been if she had had the guts. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The book gives the illusion of life that good novels doan illusion that no novel of Sontags was ever able to achieve. I understand that viscerally. . There was tremendous intellectual affinity between Sontag and Rieff. If there's one thing I'm vain about, it's that I'm willing to stare facts in the face. Mosers story of the good-looking young ex-faculty wife/Ph.D. Sigrid Nunez, in her memoir Sempre Susan, contributes what may be the last word on the subject of the authorship of The Mind of the Moralist: Although her name did not appear on the cover, she was a full coauthor, she always said. A SHORTER "DAY'S JOURNEY" May 1986 By David Rieff. You Save 24%. Lauren Bacall., I loved Susan, Leon Wieseltier said. Although he wasn't a Christian, his work remains one of the greatest giftseven if a complicated and challenging oneto Christians living today. Her father, Jack Rosenblatt, the son of uneducated immigrants from Galicia, had left school at the age of ten to work as a delivery boy in a New York fur-trading firm. Married Alison Douglas Knox, December 31, 1963. By David Glenn. And over that decade, they had very high highs and very low lows. Moser takes Sontag at her word and is as unillusioned about her as she is about herself. Women in particular talked about her enormous cultural significance. Rieff has portrayed his mother's final months in 'Swimming in a Sea of Death,' a beautiful and very somber memoir about mortality. Sontag gave birth to David when she was only nineteen, and it gave her pleasure when, as a young adult, he was taken for her brother. It's all at UCLA. But I can't control how people read a book. You're saying that's not how she should be remembered in the future? I've heard that your mother had a wonderful and vast collection of books in her apartment. You mean the Macaulay Culkin syndrome? She refused to accept any consolation from the hope of an afterlife. By contrast, it would seem that your mother had anything but a good death. ADDRESSES: Home Manhattan, NY. He conducted the ceremony in Victor and Annie Navasky's front room, with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman as my best of men.) In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies 160. by David Rieff | Editorial Reviews. Rieff, whose most recent book was a memoir about the death of his mother, Susan Sontag (Swimming in a Sea of Death, 2008), has returned to the broader themes of his earlier books (At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention, 2005, etc. I'm just not prepared to talk in any seriously honest and self-revealing way about my relationship with my mother. Thus the film scholar Don Eric Levine, a close friend of Sontags, is Mosers source for writing that when Jasper [Johns] dumped her, he did so in a way that would have devastated almost anyone. But she is most famous for those essays she wrote in the '60s and '70s. She lies, she cheats, she betrays confidences, she pathetically seeks the approval of others, she fears others, she talks too much, she smiles too much, she is unlovable, she doesnt bathe often enough. So why should she have made our lives easier by going gracefully? At the age of 82, after two . At fifteen, she wrote in her journal of the lesbian tendencies she was finding in herself. A journalist who has frequented global hotspots and an analyst of humanitarian policy (as well as curator of the collected and posthumous writings of his mother, Susan Sontag), Rieff advances his. Two years go missing. He writes of him with utter contempt. His father, whom Sontag divorced, was Philip Rieff, author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. In an essay from 2005, Wayne Koestenbaum wrote, At no other writers name can I stare entranced for hours on endonly Susan Sontags. David Rieff (/rif/; born September 28, 1952) is an American non-fiction writer and policy analyst. David Rieff @davidrieff Feb 03, 2023 @timothycbaker @keatsandchapman Point taken. His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize. And my mother enjoyed the world more than I do. We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects. Whatever moral or intellectual satisfaction Amry might have obtained from remembrance of his atrocity will pass on to people who were not victims . The erudition for which she is known was part of a passion for culture that emerged, like a seedling in a crevice in a rock, during her emotionally and intellectually deprived childhood. . And yet, Nunez writes, I considered meeting her one of the luckiest strokes of my life., In Swimming in a Sea of Death, David Rieffs brilliant, anguished memoir of Sontags last year, he writes of the avidity for life that underlay her specially strong horror of extinctiona horror that impelled her to undergo the extreme sufferings of an almost sure-to-fail bone-marrow transplant rather than accept the death sentence of an untreated (and otherwise untreatable) form of blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome. He, knowing that the treatment has almost no chance of succeeding, tells her what she wants to hear. No, I don't think so. Of her marriage to Philip Rieff, she claimed that "not only was I Dorothea [from George Eliot's Middlemarch] but that I had married Mr. Causaubon." A comic touch in connection with their divorce is that Rieff and Sontag apparently came to blows over who would get to keep the couple's collection of back issues of Partisan Review. And she went on to say that she no longer liked to write essays, saying, "I can do so much more as a novelist." For the next four decades, Sontags life was punctuated by a series of intense, doomed love affairs with beautiful, remarkable women, among them the dancer Lucinda Childs and the actress and filmmaker Nicole Stphane. In the end she couldn't even roll over unassisted. Vanity Fair Archive. The of course says it all. There's no gushing between mother and son or deathbed reconciliations. Moser wheels on witness after witness who testifies to Sontags neglect of the baby and child David, and to her sometimes unwinning behavior toward him when he was an editor at Farrar, Straus. $18.99 $25.00 Save 24% Current price is $18.99, Original price is $25. I mean, this book may be of interest because people have heard of my mother. Publisher: Yale University Press. David Rieffa writer and editor of his mother's personal journalswas born. David Rieff was born in Boston and attended Princeton University. Twice before, your mother had cancer and survived. Born in 1952, Mr. Rieff was brought to New York at age 6 from California, after his parents went through an acrimonious divorce. In fact, she sometimes went further, claiming to have written the entire book herself, every single word of it. I took this to be another one of her exaggerations.. Moser accepts her grievances at face value and weaves them into his unsparing narrative. Rieff refers to writing as "the family olive oil business." Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir. And that's all I propose to say about Annie Leibovitz. Monte Melkonian (Armenian: ; November 25, 1957 - June 12, 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary and left-wing nationalist militant. It's indisputable, as you say, that that's what brought her to national and then international attention. That doesn't seem right to me. The hardest piece of evidence that Moser offers for his thesis is a letter that Sontag wrote to her younger sister, Judith, in 1950, about her exciting new job as Rieffs research assistant. What I've left out, people will be able to go to UCLA and read. [6], Rieff has published articles in newspapers and journals including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, The New Republic, World Affairs, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Nation. Cremation seemed to confirm extinction. being a moral coward, being a liar, being indiscreet about myself + others, being a phony, being passive. In August, 1966, she writes of a chronic nauseaafter Im with people. No, I think that's something people say to console themselves. Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. November 19, 2015 Letters From the December 7, 2015, Issue Quantum of. David. Roger Deutsch, another friend, reported, If somebody like Jackie Onassis put in $2,000for a fund to help Sontag when she was ill and had no insuranceSusan would say, That woman is so rich. were often strained and at times very difficult. None of this diminishes the force that the memoir conveys of the deep currents of love that flowed between mother and son and of the intensity of Rieffs feeling of (survivors) guilt. But on the other hand, I'm a realist. As you look back over your mother's career, how do you think she'll be remembered? Once she died, I asked the other people in the room to leave. The book publisher had received criticism for removing passages related to weight, mental health, gender and race. She hoped that I and other people in her life would give her reason to hope. You say your mother had a horror of cremation. He said, "Well, the best place to have this transplant would be at the Fred Hutchinson Center at the University of Washington Hospital in Seattle.". American writer Susan Sontag was terrified of death. You shouldn't start to believe because it suits you. I don't know whether you believe it or not. This is not a portrait of Rieff's relationship with Sontag, though at one point he refers to their "strained and at times very difficult" relations. In life, I dont want to be reduced to my work. The great American sociologist Philip Rieff (1922-2006) stands as one of the 20th century's keenest intellectuals and cultural commentators. On the contrary, she was very pleased that I was a writer and encouraged me in every way. This is all very new territory to me. I didn't feel that my interests could be put ahead of that. You have been a writer for many years, but to my knowledge, it's only been quite recently that you've written this directly about your mother. [12], Rieff has one child, a daughter (born 2006).[13]. Not only is there a sense of inner peace, but the dying person often has meaningful and profound conversations with friends and family. In her feisty debut book, Oluo, essayist, blogger, and editor at large at the Establishment magazine, writes from the perspective of a black, queer, middle-class, college-educated woman living in a "white supremacist country." The daughter of a white single mother, brought up in largely white Seattle, she sees race as "one . Features. But I don't think she would have repudiated a lot of the essays she wrote. I don't want to romanticize the end of life, but we never had the kinds of conversations I would've liked to have had with her. She did more things in the world than I do. Thanks to the cryptic style in which it is written, Sacred Order/Social Order is a tremendously difficult work to read one critic compared it to "chewing ball bearings; every once in a while there is a cherry".In it, Rieff does, finally, offer something like a schematic for his theory of culture, delivered in strange expository passages sandwiched in between his close readings of . At seventeen I met a thin, heavy-thighed, balding man who talked and talked, snobbishly, bookishly, and called me Sweet. After a few days passed, I married him, she recalled in a journal entry from 1973. Welcome; Issues; Of course, he intends to be discreet, to keep some things to himself. And Katie Roiphe also thought of royalty when she wrote of tall and elegant David Rieffs slight air of being crown prince to a country that has suddenly and inexplicably gone democratic. The mother and son bear a strong, not entirely physical, resemblance to each other. However, Mosers exasperation with Sontag is fuelled by something that lies outside the problematic of biographical writing. Near the end of the book, you say, "I have preferred to write as little as possible of my relations with my mother in the last decade of her life, but suffice it so say that they were often strained and at times very difficult." Even though she did say, "Don't lie to me.". In the last days, she kind of withdrew. Refresh and try again. I agree with you entirely that she captured the imagination of a certain time and became famous, and then I think did really good work and backed it up. There's a certain grace that can follow. [11], Peter Rose, reviewing Rieff's 2008 book Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir, compares it favourably to Simone de Beauvoir's 1964 A Very Easy Death; he considers the latter "perhaps the finest of filial memoirs. 1950 Sontag marries Philip Rieff, a young teacher at Chicago, after a 10-day courtship. I don't know that being cheerful is better than being a melancholy person. Rich had been punished for her bravery (by coming out publicly, [she] bought herself a ticket to Siberiaor at least away from the patriarchal world of New York culture), while Sontag had been rewarded for her cowardice. You have just a brief reference to Annie Leibovitz, your mother's off-and-on companion for 20 years. It seems that something has changed for you, and you wanted to engage with your mother more directly in print. As an admirer of The Mind of the Moralist, I was intrigued by what the newly opened question of its authorship might mean for both Rieff's and Sontag's legacies. Illness as Metaphor (1978), her polemic against the pernicious mythologies that blame people for their illnesses, with tuberculosis and cancer as prime exemplars, was a popular success as well as a significant influence on how we think about the world. Features Lehman's Desperate Housewives April 2010 . Usually this means someone who accepts dying and stops fighting it. 1952 David Rieff is born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only son of Susan and. In Washington these days, people talk a lot about the collapse of the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that existed during the Cold . David Rieff, a New York-based journalist, is the author of eight books. What I will say, though, is that when I wrote this book, I thought a lot about what I'd say and what I wouldn't say. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old? When she came back she put David to bed and then she said, Guess what? [8][9] His 2016 article in The Guardian, "The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good"which argues that some mass atrocities are better forgotten[10]sparked a debate at the International Center for Transitional Justice. It is a book about dying, grieving and what it means to survive the death of a loved one. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a . She said she might be ill again, might have some kind of blood cancer. His father, the sociologist Philip Rieff, wrote his own masterpiece, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud." I don't want to write a memoir of our relationship. If friends cannot control their ambivalence, what about the enemies who cannot wait to take their revenge? He invited her to a New Years Eve party and then left, without a word, with another woman. Moser adds, The incident goes unmentioned in her journals. In another unmentioned incident (until Moser mentions it), Levine is surprised when Sontag tells him that she is going to pick up her son from a schoolmates house: This is not Susan. It's a weird thing in this age of the Internet. I want to take the liberty of republishing here the latest missive from the journalist David Rieff, a man of the Left who despises wokeness, taken from his Substack newsletter, titled Desire and Fate. She emerges from it as a person more to be pitied than envied. The standard time between diagnosis and death is nine months, and there are no drugs that work more than a few months to keep your blood counts where they're supposed to be. Coming out is at issue, in fact. There was tremendous intellectual affinity between Sontag and Rieff. A protector was needed, and he appeared on cue. . When did you first hear your mother had this form of blood cancer? His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. . David had a car then, and I remember the four of us driving around Manhattan, four cigarettes going, the car filled with smoke and Josephs deep, rumbling voice and funny, high-pitched laugh. She remembers Sontags big, beautiful smile. She writes of trips that Sontag took her and David on whose sole purpose was enjoyment. Conversations about the past. . Rate this book. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. But I'm sure it's true. And I was too unwilling to pay that price, so it took me a long time to become a writer and pay that price, which I did. When you say "grace," it lets family members off the hook. If she had survived the bone-marrow transplant (as she had survived the dire treatments for two earlier bouts of advanced cancer), would she have been reconciled to dying of something else later on? Rieff asks. candidate who comes to New York to seek her fortune among the Partisan Review intellectuals has something of the atmosphere of nineteenth-century narratives about the rise of famous Parisian courtesans. The best intentions, however, can be broken on the wheel of skillful (or even inept) interviewing. There were very good times and very bad times between us. Susan Sontag married Rieff the following year. Moser also quotes from a manuscript he found in the archive which he believes to be a memoir of the marriage: They stayed in bed most of the first months of their marriage, making love four or five times a day and in between talking, talking endlessly about art and politics and religion and morals. The couple did not have many friends, because they tended to criticize them out of acceptability.. He is not above quoting interviewees who saw fit to question Davids devotion to Sontag during her horrible last year. Jackie Onassis. She does not suppress her glimpses of Sontag when she was not all rightwhen she was at her most painfully fearful and miserable and impossible. (en) dbo:wikiPageExternalLink She seemed to know that the opportunity comes only once. I think she's right. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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