- AIDS (Disease), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer, Cancer in literature
In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal labeling of AIDS as a "plague". Published together in one volume these works are brimming with humane and original ideas about disease and the modern condition.
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Character-led, spare, contemplative and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Susan Sontag
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 88
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, Penguin Classics, Doubleday
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374174460
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“Two diseases have been spectacularly, and similarly, encumbered by the trappings of metaphor: tuberculosis and cancer.”
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include *On Photography*, *Against Interpretation*, *Styles of Radical Will*, *The Way We Live Now*, *Illness as Metaphor*, *Regarding the Pain of Others*, *The Volcano Lover*, and *In America*. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, h
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