The Benefactor , Susan Sontag\'s first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world.
In the form of a memoir by a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte, The Benefactor leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which Hippolyte\'s violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the \'real world.\' Sontag\'s novel supplies a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of a certain bohemian demimond.
The Benefactor , Susan Sontag\'s first book and first novel, originally published in 1963, introduced a unique writer to the world