David Rieff has written a sobering and often horrifying account of his mother's final days. I have a big library. I hope it has some relevance to people who've never heard of Susan Sontag, let alone of me. I wanted to engage with her death in print. [12], Rieff has one child, a daughter (born 2006).[13]. I interviewed your mother a couple of times late in her life. She suffered like someone being tortured. His father, the sociologist Philip Rieff, wrote his own masterpiece, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud." That Norman Mailer has orgies? Moser accepts her grievances at face value and weaves them into his unsparing narrative. He notes Rieff's "caution and misgivings", and finds especially compelling the essay where Rieff laments the gap between the misery and violence "outside the gates of the Western world" and the obstacles that prevent the West from assembling the strength, whether military or moral, to resolve the problems. I think she's right. 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. From 2000 until 2014 I worked exclusively as a pit reporter, interviewing drivers, fans, owners and sponsor executives. Well, it sure doesn't help. The best intentions, however, can be broken on the wheel of skillful (or even inept) interviewing. It's all at UCLA. On her third visit, Nunez met Sontag's son, David Rieff, and shortly thereafter the two began dating. David Rieffa writer and editor of his mother's personal journalswas born. Your mother was an iconic figure in intellectual circles, not just because of what she wrote but how she looked and acted. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. But there isnt much of a living in the kind of things that she wrote. By contrast, it would seem that your mother had anything but a good death. . We know no one in life the way biographers know their subjects. Of course, some people of faith find it easier. Author: David Rieff. A SHORTER "DAY'S JOURNEY" May 1986 By David Rieff. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories, Two volumes of Susan Sontags diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, have been published, and a third is forthcoming. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. By David Rieff. David Rieff @davidrieff Feb 03, 2023 @timothycbaker @keatsandchapman Point taken. One of our more tiresome national cliches holds that the Irish can never forget while the . Father: Gabriel Rieff Mother: Ida (Hurwitz) Rieff Spouse: Alison Douglas Knox Spouse: Susan Sontag child: David Rieff . Sontag was accused of humorlessness, but in fact she was guilty only of high-mindedness. So why should she have made our lives easier by going gracefully? And that may be because I didn't want to have a fight with somebody, because I didn't want to offend somebody, because I thought I'd hurt somebody's feelings, or because I just preferred that something not be known. I'm not a confessional writer. Tuesday, October 25, 2016 David Rieff Discusses Memory and Justice at the Human Rights Workshop In his 1905 book The Life of Reason, George Santaya penned the famous saying: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Human rights activists generally agree. She applied for and received a fellowship at Oxford, and left husband and child for a year. eBook. I was coming back from about a month in Israel/Palestine, where I was trying to do a story on Yasser Arafat. I was one of those kids who was always writing stories and thoughts and all that. No, I think I became a writer in spite of her. ISBN-13: 978-0300182798. 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. David Rieff was born in Boston and attended Princeton University. Named Fulbright Professor University Munich, 1959-1960, Guggenheim fellow, 1970, Sometime fellow All Souls College, Oxford. The of course says it all. 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. She said she might be ill again, might have some kind of blood cancer. Then I flew back. They divorce in 1958. . They weren't mine to keep. . Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio's nationally syndicated program "To the Best of Our Knowledge." The simple truth is that my mother could not get enough of being alive. 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. 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. You're wearing a John Lennon cap. Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong after the transplant. When she said, "I'm not interested in quality of life," she meant it. She flew back to New York when it was clear the leukemia had become full-blown and the transplant had failed, and spent the last six or seven weeks of her life in Memorial Sloan-Kettering. 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. He is working on a book about the global food crisis. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. An atmosphere surrounds them that wafts in from the same faraway kingdom. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. The child of the alcoholic is plagued by low self-esteem, always feeling, no matter how loudly she is acclaimed, that she is falling short, he writes. Nunez, in her memoir, set in the Straus period, wrote of the Riverside Drive apartment: Its main feature was the growing number of books, but they were mostly paperbacks, and the shelves were cheap pine board. Sontags life was, in Mosers telling, always shadowed by abject fear and insecurity. The book is so excellent in so many ways, so complete a working-out of the themes that marked Susan Sontags life, that it is hard to imagine it could be the product of a mind that later produced such meager fruits, Moser writes. David Rieff was born on 28 September, 1952 in Boston, MA, is a Non-fiction writer, policy analyst. It was important to have that on the record. So she was going to fight for every breath, no matter how much suffering that entailed. I think it's the commonplace guilt of survivors. Monte Melkonian (Armenian: ; November 25, 1957 - June 12, 1993) was an Armenian-American revolutionary and left-wing nationalist militant. 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. I think [her 1992 novel] "The Volcano Lover" is the best thing she ever did. ADDRESSES: Home Manhattan, NY. Two years go missing. They are specks on it. David Rieff. He merely believes that a pretentious creep like Rieff could not have written it. I felt lots of things, not all of them resting easily together. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. Rieff chose to bury her in Paris' Montparnasse cemetery, steps from Simone de Beauvoir, and in the posthumous company of Jean-Paul Sartre, Emile Cioran, and Raymond Aron. I don't think that's a particularly strange or masochistic thing to say. When I say "in spite of," what I mean is that when I saw that I still wanted to write in my early 20s, I thought very consciously, "Oh, if I become a writer, I will spend the first 10 years of my career having anyone who reviews a book of mine say, 'David Rieff, Susan Sontag's son.'" But I know it's preposterous. Help me believe I might make it." There seems to be a good deal of bitterness packed into that short sentence. That's a good question. What I'm saying is that the right way for one person to die may not be the right way for another person to die. It wasn't conscious but it certainly makes sense. . She had a basis for thinking it wasn't hopeless when a doctor said it was. Parents to their parents, forbidden the carelessness of normal children, they [children of alcoholics] assume an air of premature seriousness. You say your mother had a horror of cremation. The marriage lasted eight years during which their son, David Rieffa writer and editor of his mother's personal journalswas born. I do wish that. In her later years, she had a relationship with Annie Leibovitz, whom Rieff avoids discussing in his memoir, except for one loaded comment about the photographer's "carnival images of celebrity death.". Sontag will be remembered as a philosopher. Jackie Onassis. He married his 17 year-old student Susan Sontag after 10 days of courtship in the 1950s. Did not telling her the truth about her condition take a toll on you? 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. I don't mean in the sense that she opposed it. Mosers anecdotes of the unpleasantness that she allowed herself as she grew older ring true, but recede in significance when viewed against the vast canvas of her lived experience. So I don't buy it. David Rieff ( / rif /; born September 28, 1952) is an American non-fiction writer and policy analyst. Biographers often get fed up with their subjects, with whom they have become grotesquely overfamiliar. At fifteen, she wrote in her journal of the lesbian tendencies she was finding in herself. All public knowledge, to be sure, but who the hell am I to go advertising other peoples sexual habits? Your mother was an atheist. 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. Philip Rieff is remembered todayif at allas the one-time husband of his former student Susan Sontag, and a crankily conservative observer of American society, which he saw as violent, stupid . The early years of Sontags marriage to Rieff are the least documented of her life, and theyre a little mysterious, leaving much to the imagination. 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 is a book about dying, grieving and what it means to survive the death of a loved one. Yeah, it's an even more lethal cancer, and yeah, she's even 30 years older, but maybe she'll beat the odds." Their children, Ethan and Tania, were my friends and contemporaries. She beat cancer in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, but third time around she wasn't so lucky. I mean, this book may be of interest because people have heard of my mother. I was trying to be cheerful. I never thought about it. Nunez, who was twenty-three-year-old David Rieffs twenty-five-year-old girlfriend and lived in the apartment with him and Sontag for more than a year, stresses that the time Im talking about was beforebefore the grand Chelsea penthouse, the enormous library, the rare editions, the art collection, the designer clothes, the country house, the personal assistant, the housekeeper, the personal chef., Nunezs short book (its a hundred and forty pages) raises the ethical question that Nunez herself must have wrestled with: Is it ever O.K. It turned out that if she wanted to try something rather than palliative care during the last months of her life, there was one possibility. Arts Fair Beckett's Eire December 1986 By David Rieff. Still, throughout our interview, he displayed his own brand of remarkable candor. We recommend . The great American sociologist Philip Rieff (1922-2006) stands as one of the 20th century's keenest intellectuals and cultural commentators. Is there anything Susan Sontag doesnt want to know? In fact, I think once you write a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. I hope she'll be remembered as a person who did good work, was serious, and didn't give in to the kind of cheap easy way outs that intellectuals in our culture so often give in to. Don't speak about him to others (e.g. 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." 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. I'm not Solon the law giver. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. She had preternatural energy (sometimes enhanced by speed). In the end, David Rieff goes the distance with his mother, taking her body back to Paris to be buried at Montparnasse Cemetery among her kind: artists and thinkers and trophy intellectuals. But when the bone marrow transplant started to go wrong soon after it took place, I didn't think she would make it. American non-fiction writer and policy analyst, International Center for Transitional Justice, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, "Soros Foundations Network 2002 Annual Report", "David Rieff, Melbourne University Press", "Muscular Utopianism: I used to be a liberal interventionist. [Pause] I took it for granted in the world that I grew up in. Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 - July 1, . In his account of Sontags worldly success, Moser shifts to a less baleful register. She was trying to be cheerful. He has also been a Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science & Religion. Are any bluntly Jewish appellations fabulous? 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 . And I didn't want to go through that. Features DEBRA WINGS IT February 1987 By Arthur Lurow. 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. Among them was the lie she told about the price of her apartment on Riverside Drive, because she wanted to seem like she was an intellectual who drifted into a lovely apartment and did not spend a lot of money on real estate, like a more bourgeois, ordinary person. But by the time of Annie Leibovitzs protectorship her self-image had changed. Susan Sontag married Rieff the following year. So that's the price I paid. 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. A new book is as unillusioned about the writer as she was about herself. No, I think that's something people say to console themselves. He was an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux until 1989 and has been on the faculties of Skidmore, The City University of New York, and New York University. 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. Her arm is draped over your shoulder. 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. And he told her the bad news. by David Rieff | Editorial Reviews. Mosers biography, for all its pity and antipathy, conveys the extra-largeness of Sontags life. There is no question David Rieff is the most famous & most loved celebrity of all the time. In the end, I chose to do that. . Because I don't think it's anybody's business. People visiting for the first time were clearly surprised to find the celebrated middle-aged writer living like a grad student. 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. What I discovered was unexpected,. Do you lie? The chances were indeed stacked against her. In life, I dont want to be reduced to my work. On the contrary, she was very pleased that I was a writer and encouraged me in every way. And he drops this bombshell: he claims that Rieff did not write his great bookSontag did. She refused to accept any consolation from the hope of an afterlife. . Rieff was educated at the Lyce Franais de New York and attended Amherst College as a member of the class of 1974, where he studied under Benjamin DeMott. She was a best-selling novelist and a singular presence -- the brainy, glamorous woman who held her own among the testosterone-filled intellectuals of the period. 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. And she didn't embargo them. Photograph by Richard Avedon/ The Richard Avedon Foundation, Grande soy latte for This Is a Robbery., The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End. She was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, where many famous writers are buried. How the seedling became the majestic flowering plant of Sontags maturity is an inspiring storythough perhaps also a chastening one. But in the sixties Sontag struggled to survive as a writer who didnt teach. So not just her papers, but the books, too? I was stunned by how dismissive she was of those dazzling essays that she wrote in the '60s and that made her famous. And she was just a sore. Sontags love life was unusual. Publisher: Yale University Press. Statistics for all 11 David Rieff results: 48 yrs AVERAGE AGE 29% are in their 40s, while the average age is 48. 100% CAUCASIAN Our ethnicity data indicates the majority is Caucasian. He reports that at the time of her death, in 2004, Sontag had given no instructions about the dozens of notebooks that she had been filling with her private thoughts since adolescence and which she kept in a closet in her bedroom. . During this time, I began my transition to the . We had a complicated relationship. The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson explains how they began, and what will happen if the planets great green lung continues to burn. You could set the record straight. So the suffering was extraordinary. But it does raise the question: Without the consolation of religion, does the prospect of dying lead to dread? But I'm sure it's true. And I decided, finally, that I would tell the truth about anything that I could tell the complete truth about. Now republished by New York Review Books, it was first released just weeks before its author's early death in 1969. American writer Susan Sontag was terrified of death. : Simon & Schuster, 2005, 288 pp. . Once she died, I asked the other people in the room to leave. In Swimming in a Sea of Death, Rieff confesses that my relations with my mother in the last decade of her life. Wildfires have long occurred in the Amazon rain forest, but never on this scale. 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. People are very different in their lives and very different in their deaths. She knocked on the door, and who opened the door? though in the book Blam is spared not because he flees Novi Sad in time but rather because he is married to a Christian and has converted to Christianity. Nov. 7, 2011. They were. My mother had a big library. They don't have to feel so bad that the person is going. Read an excerpt of this book! But for the first time, their love affair is laid bare, as Sontag's son David Rieff admitted: "They were the worse couple I've ever seen in terms of unkindness, inability to be nice, held. But in her lifetime, long before she was diagnosed with MDS, my mother decided they were going to be public. David Rieff. (Examples: the philosophical aphorisms of Lichtenberg and Novalis; Nietzsche of course; passages in Rilkes Duino Elegies; and Kafkas Reflections on Love, Sin, Hope, Death, the Way.). So what do you do, as the person who's close to someone who wants to live at any price, when you think this fight isn't worth it? David. It was. So after I'm gone, nobody is going to be able to publish them. 80% MARRIED 80% of these people are married, and 20% are single. To be blunt, I took off her shirt. There's something obscene about sitting at a desk, in a chair that corrects the posture, sipping warm, sugary tea, yawning or scratching, barely . 2023 Cond Nast. 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