Dead Centre presents a thought-provoking adaptation of Susan Sontag's seminal work, Illness as Metaphor, during the 2024 Dublin Fringe Festival. The production explores how society discusses illness, ...
(This is a condensed version of a recent talk, with full video appended below.) Susan Sontag writes in her opening to Illness as Metaphor: “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous ...
In 1978, Susan Sontag wrote what many regard as her best book, Illness as Metaphor. At the time, she was being treated for breast cancer. Her book, an elaboration of three powerful and original essays ...
In her book “Illness as Metaphor,” Susan Sontag explores the various ways society has sought to understand diseases through metaphoric expressions, and how those metaphors are translated into a ...
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” This is what Susan Sontag ...
Susan Sontag compared the connotations of “cancer” to those of “tuberculosis,” to which threatening meanings were also attached until it was found to reflect a bacterial infection. Sontag suggested ...
Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, ...
Susan Sontag, a University of Chicago graduate who became one of America’s most controversial public intellectuals and achieved worldwide fame as an essayist, novelist and critic, died Dec. 28, 2004.