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On Being Ill

On Being Ill

Woolf, Virginia

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ISBN10: 1684227283
ISBN13: 9781684227280
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Jul 19 2022
Pages: 20
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

2022 Reprint of the 1926 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's The New Criterion in January 1926. The essay sought to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes, Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light...it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature. Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no; ... 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. Woolf explores the taboos associated with illness, and she discusses how illness transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us.

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