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On Being Ill

Paperback • 2023 • English

On Being Ill

By Virginia Woolf

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About the book

Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no – with a few exceptions… literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear, and, save for one or two passions such as desire and greed, is null, and negligible and non-existent.’Penned in 1925 during the aftermath of a nervous breakdown, On Being Ill...Show more

Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Narrative theme: Health and illness

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ISBN

9781804470312

Publisher

Renard Press Limited

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

On Being Ill

Format

Paperback

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