Penguin Books Ltd Notes on camp | susan sontag

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'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.

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