How does it hurt? / Stephanie de Montalk.

By:

De Montalk, Stephanie, 1945- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780864739698

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.19604720092 23

Contents:

1. The shirt of Nessos -- 2. Going nursing -- 3. At the end of the mind, the body -- 4. But at the end of the body, the mind -- 5. The vendor of happiness -- 6. The consolator -- 7. Observatory -- 8. An imago -- 9. How does it hurt? -- 10. White train.

Summary: "Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than ten years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator", English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876), "the vendor of happiness", French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897), and "the imago", Polish poet Aleksander Wat (1900- 1967). Through these explorations De Montalk confronts the paradox of writing about suffering: where we can turn when the pain is beyond words? A unique blend of memoir, imaginative biography and poetry" -- Publisher information.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than ten years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator", English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876), "the vendor of happiness", French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897), and "the imago", Polish poet Aleksander Wat (1900- 1967). Through these explorations De Montalk confronts the paradox of writing about suffering: where we can turn when the pain is beyond words? A unique blend of memoir, imaginative biography and poetry" -- Publisher information.

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