“The ultimate statement of Camp: it is good because it is awful.” These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between “high” and “low” culture, making Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the avant-garde spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, each offering a distilled dose of its contemporary, international flavor. Here are writers ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem, and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson. Radical and inspired essays, touching and unsettling poems, surreal and fantastical stories, taking us from the Deep South to modern Japan, from the New York underground scene to the furthest corners of outer space.

Pages: 64, Dimensions: 11x11cm