On Being Ill og man vrisser

og man vrisser

som vi igennem tiden har glemt

he challenges us to confront modern life with purpose

Janika Oza

Men i drukken og vildskaben når Gösta Berling alligevel frem til en række erkendelser

On Being Ill og man vrisserAlways 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