书名：In America在美国Penguin Modern Classics) 

作者：Susan Sontag

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2009

语种：英语

ISBN：9780141190105

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：400（以实物为准）

《在美国》是一部历史传记，主人公的原型是波兰裔著名演员海伦娜•莫德耶斯卡。莫德耶斯卡一八六八年在华沙崭露头角，一八七七年在旧金山主演《勒库弗勒》英文译剧，“虽英文很差，但仍十分成功”。她偶尔也到伦敦演出。波兰的理想主义者们购置农田，研究农事，开辟葡萄园，希望建立自己的种植园。经过几个月艰难而又美好的田园生活，牧歌式的乌托邦终因经营不善和内部分歧而夭折。一些人返回波兰，一些人转到另一社区，还有一些人在美国定居。为了渡过经济上的难关，玛琳娜顽强地克服了语言障碍，重返舞台。在从南到北、从城市到乡镇的巡回演出中，玛琳娜风靡美国，成为美国舞台上璀璨夺目的新星。故事在玛琳娜与布斯对人生和艺术的探讨中结束

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

苏珊•桑塔格，1933年生于美国纽约，毕业于芝加哥大学。1993年当选为美国文学艺术学院院士。她是美国声名卓著的“新知识分子”，与西蒙娜•波伏瓦、汉娜•阿伦特并称为西方当代zui重要的女知识分子，被誉为“美国公众的良心”、“大西洋两岸di一批评家”。2000年获美国国家图书奖，2001年获耶路撒冷国际文学奖，2003年获西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖及德国图书大奖——德国书业和平奖。2004年12月28日病逝于纽约。

Susan Sontagwas born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.