On Being Ill and with sharp

and with sharp

Janika Oza

og den bør stå i bogreolen i ethvert sommerhus

"Høvrings dikt snur det antroposentriske perspektivet i kristendommen og antyder at alt fra kortnebbgåsa til døgnflua kan være jordas salt

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On Being Ill and with sharpAlways 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