Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors

Author(s): Susan Sontag

Non-Fiction

"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society.


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Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

General Fields

  • : 9780141187129
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : March 2014
  • : May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Susan Sontag
  • : Paperback