{"product_id":"9781466873353","title":"Duet for Cannibals: A Screenplay","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist. In 1968 she accepted a Swedish studio's invitation to write and direct a move in Stockholm. \u003ci\u003eDuet for Cannibals\u003c\/i\u003e is the result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederic Tuten, in \u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, wrote: \"\u003ci\u003eDuet for Cannibals \u003c\/i\u003eis a witty, bone-dry serio-comedy that fascinates and disturbs in turn....Dr. Arthur Bauer, attractive in a swinish way, fiftyish, arch-revolutionary theoretician engaged in writing his memoirs, is Sontag's anti- or false revolutionary, an arrogant, self-aggrandizing trickster who blurs together revolution and his ego. Francesca, Bauer's neurotic, elegantly seductive wife, supports her husband's mystifications while composing her own. Tomas, an earnest student revolutionary hired by Bauer to catalogue his documents, and Ingrid, Tomas's impressionable girlfriend, are the fodder for the elder couple's psychological and sexual feast.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this film Susan Sontag joins the company of writers-filmmakers and offers her own special contribution to cinematic art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote: This eBook edition does not contain images.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129779339504,"sku":"9781466873353","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466873353_p0.jpg?v=1763687164","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466873353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}