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Susan Sontag: Illness as Metaphor (1988) 4 stars

Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which …

Review of 'Illness As Metaphor' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I kinda handwave at this one. It's really well put together, but it's like watching someone else's fascination with something I'm utterly disconnected from. Most of my connection to this approach is Shakespeare, which is more generalized in its application of disease metaphor, and thus somehow something I can more easily fathom.

shrugs

Worth the read.