On Being Ill Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell

Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith

vaske håndklæder og lave cowboytoasts til gæsterne

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spørger Erika Fatland og tager os med på en rejse i Søfarerens fodspor hen over fire kontinenter og tre verdenshave

Bogen er en del af serien Feministisk bibliotek

On Being Ill Gorgeously translated by Jennifer RussellAlways to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. Virginia Woolfs essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series of reflections on sickness, fiction, and the chilling indifference of the natural world. Above all a testament to the fundamental solitariness of the human soul, this is an indispensable work by the