Illness as Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors Pigen er seksten år og

Pigen er seksten år og faret vild i de ukendte gader

Her translation of Inger Christensen’s ‘Alphabet’ won the 1982 ASF/PEN Translation Prize

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Sheena Patels ætsende direkte facon og de mange lag af reaktioner på følelser og tanker

Illness as Metaphor & Aids and Its Metaphors Pigen er seksten år ogSontag 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