# The Benefactor

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- Book: [The Benefactor](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-sontag/the-benefactor) ([The Benefactor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-sontag/the-benefactor.md))
- Authors: [Susan Sontag](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-sontag)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-009-9
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2009-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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'.