As the second year of my university course proceeds, new subjects come along. One of them is “Interpretation of the literary works.” On the very top of our reading list, what I found quite puckish was Susan Sontag's “Against Interpretation.” What a way to start this class, right? But I like that, and I liked the essay too. A few days after finishing it, a quote from one of Andrei Tarkovsky's interviews came across my Tumblr feed:
And to be all fair, it pretty much summarises the entire essay.