Notes on Camp

\'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 Shirley Jackson; 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 outer space.