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Against Suffering: A Meditation on Literature
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2000
- pp. 229-240
- 10.1353/lm.2000.0032
- Article
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Abstract
An interpretation of a German proverb, Weh spricht: vergeh!- --Woe speaks: Go, as an exemplary human response to suffering. The essay follows the syntax of the proverb in nine meditative passages, commenting on the involuntary cry of pain and the emergence of language, the solitude of suffering, the imperatives of desire, the metaphysical dimension of the complaint, and the responsibilities of literature. The essay relates various stages of this argument to literary examples.
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