Her Son
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity.
Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough.
And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living.
Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Death subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.
發表於2024-11-29
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原來她也是怕死的。麵對第三次癌癥診斷的,這個強勢的女人到底是慌瞭陣腳,不能像寫《疾病的隱喻》時候那樣冷靜地拿自己的痛苦說事。因為這次她雖說心存僥倖覺得自己逃得掉,但是恐懼仍然多於勇氣和自信,總之她怕死,更不想死,一個活著的時候內心無比強大,思維那麼敏捷...
評分原來她也是怕死的。麵對第三次癌癥診斷的,這個強勢的女人到底是慌瞭陣腳,不能像寫《疾病的隱喻》時候那樣冷靜地拿自己的痛苦說事。因為這次她雖說心存僥倖覺得自己逃得掉,但是恐懼仍然多於勇氣和自信,總之她怕死,更不想死,一個活著的時候內心無比強大,思維那麼敏捷...
評分原來她也是怕死的。麵對第三次癌癥診斷的,這個強勢的女人到底是慌瞭陣腳,不能像寫《疾病的隱喻》時候那樣冷靜地拿自己的痛苦說事。因為這次她雖說心存僥倖覺得自己逃得掉,但是恐懼仍然多於勇氣和自信,總之她怕死,更不想死,一個活著的時候內心無比強大,思維那麼敏捷...
評分原來她也是怕死的。麵對第三次癌癥診斷的,這個強勢的女人到底是慌瞭陣腳,不能像寫《疾病的隱喻》時候那樣冷靜地拿自己的痛苦說事。因為這次她雖說心存僥倖覺得自己逃得掉,但是恐懼仍然多於勇氣和自信,總之她怕死,更不想死,一個活著的時候內心無比強大,思維那麼敏捷...
評分原來她也是怕死的。麵對第三次癌癥診斷的,這個強勢的女人到底是慌瞭陣腳,不能像寫《疾病的隱喻》時候那樣冷靜地拿自己的痛苦說事。因為這次她雖說心存僥倖覺得自己逃得掉,但是恐懼仍然多於勇氣和自信,總之她怕死,更不想死,一個活著的時候內心無比強大,思維那麼敏捷...
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