En klog og overraskende roman om hemmeligheder

the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

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Illness as Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors En klog og overraskende romanSontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it is a disease; not a curse, not a punishment, certainly not an embarrassment, and