15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self

Explosive Elasticity of the Self

“This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?” the young Leo Tolstoy distilled the eternal quest in his diary as he wrestled with moral development and the search for selfhood — a search that begins as soon as we become conscious, reaches a crescendo in the formative years of adolescence and young adulthood, and continues until ou... See more