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Notes on 'Camp' by Susan Sontag
4.0

'Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.'

Marginally of its time but a great read for pure enjoyment and some excellent opera and Art Nouveau chat. On that note, I have to disagree with Sontag that neither opera nor ballet can 'easily do justice to the complexity of human nature'. That said, she's right that Il trovatore is peak camp.