[Vwoolf] New Edition of 'On Being Ill'

Tue Sep 21 10:42:33 EDT 2021

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On Being Ill - available from the 25th of October - or pre-order here:

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HetMoet, 2021, paperback with flaps,

p.172. €22,50/ £19,99

ISBN 9789083131658

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People everywhere have found themselves faced with a global pandemic, during which we have learned to cope with sickness and all that accompanies it: isolation, immunity, loss of control, and recovery. Yet while no longer taboo, illness remains an unpopular theme in literature. In her essay, On Being Ill Virginia Woolf asks whether illness should not receive more literary attention, taking its place alongside the recurring themes of “love, battle and jealousy”. This book, On Being Ill, does exactly that.

This edition serves as a complement to HetMoet’s 2020 publication of the first Dutch translation of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill. The subtle complexities of Woolf’s essay will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today. In this collaborative volume, authors, translators and illustrators have come together from Great Britain, Ireland, the United States and the Netherlands to represent past, present and future thinking about illness. Noteworthy contributions to this edition are Deryn Rees-Jones’ preface to Woolf’s essay from 1926 and the introduction to Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals of 1980. Against these, the voices of contemporary authors resonate as they contemplate the interactions between sickness and literature.

Readers are able to begin the book at the end, or might happily start in the middle, as every contribution is a unique, personal piece which offers poignant observations of the world of illness from within. Writing, as well as reading, about illness, is a form of love.

‘A sick body is, I think, more receptive to the starry sky and to the sensation that a human being is both magnificent and insignificant at the same time’

– Mieke van Zonneveld

‘To believe yourself, your body and that your pain is real, is a radical act of self-care’

– Jameisha Prescod

‘Being ill stills time’

– Deryn Rees-Jones

'Representing a diagnosis -- in art, words or photos -- is an attempt to explain to ourselves what has happened, to deconstruct the world and rebuild it in our own way'

- Sinéad Gleeson

‘Writing about illness is a form of love’

– Lucia Osborne-Crowley

On Being Ill

Virginia Woolf, Deryn-Rees Jones, Lieke Marsman, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Mieke van Zonneveld, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Nadia de Vries, Jameisha Prescod, Sinéad Gleeson and Audre Lorde.

Cover art by Louisa Albani

Warm Wishes,
Marielle
Ms Marielle O’Neill
Postgraduate Researcher, Leeds Trinity University
Executive Council Member, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
M.ONeill at leedstrinity.ac.uk
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