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Being Sick. Notes from Sickrooms

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In her essay "Being Sick" (1926), Virginia Woolf addresses the question: why is illness—an everyday and integral part of human life—so inexcusably underrepresented? According to the writer, who herself suffered from physical ailments, a person forced to be cut off from the familiar world and confined to bed gains a completely different perspective. For Woolf, illness is a springboard that allows one to break free from conventional wisdom, the "welcoming deception" of society, and to perceive the world outside the norm, as if from within. In her view of illness, she diverges from that of her mother, Julia Stephen, an experienced nurse and author of the practical guide "Notes from Sickrooms" (1883). Both texts are published in Russian for the first time and introduce readers to two different ways of writing about illness from two very different women.
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