The Benefactor: Susan Sontag

The Benefactor is Susan Sontag`s first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and 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`.