undead body

The Undying

【Editor's Recommendation】
"I'm 41 years old and diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm willing to try anything to survive."
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, highly recommended by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Kirkus Reviews, this is a delicate, courageous, tender, yet brutal memoir of survival by a breast cancer patient. No one is born outside of history, and no one escapes illness and death. From her cancer diagnosis to her treatments and final escape from death, the author meticulously describes every inch of her body, sharing a journey with Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and all women who have endured physical pain.
A heroic breast monologue, an angry elegy for the body; a sharp blade of righteous pain, a fearless female manifesto. Pain, vulnerability, morality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, fatigue, cancer, care... Can patients cry out in pain? Can they be weak or angry?
○ "Illness as Metaphor" is written in the 21st century based on physical experience, recording the immersive physical and mental experience of modern diseases. As a talented poet, Anne Boyer's writing about her own illness is avant-garde: integrating poetry, prose, journalism, novels, literary criticism and other forms, offending the world and expressing herself.
An urgent intervention in sickness and health, art and science, morality and death, dedicated to patients past, present, and future. We have been sick, we will become sick; we are born, we are dying. May this book be a small act of restorative magic, granting to everyone who reads it the freedom that comes with radical simplification.
Emerging artist Zhou Wenjing presents this cover artwork, a truly glimpse into our breasts. The cover artwork, "Hyperplasia," from "In the Name of Disease No. 2," is based on a mammography screening X-ray image, recreated by the artist through sketching. It depicts a small planet about to explode, a bruised apple, and a part of our body that hasn't died yet.
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【Content Introduction】
Just one week after her forty-first birthday, poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease. For a single mother who had always been a caregiver rather than the cared for, facing illness necessitated an acceptance of vulnerability, pain, and a battle. This devastating illness presented both a crisis and an opportunity to rethink the gender politics of death and illness.
This book is the 21st-century version of "The Illness of Metaphor," a poignant memoir of survival. The poet plunges into the long history of female writers writing about their own illnesses and contemplating death, joining Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and all women who have suffered from physical pain.
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【Media Recommendation】
This is a masterful, elegant and unforgettable account of the cruelty of disease and the capitalist workings of the American cancer care system.
——2020 Pulitzer Prize Award Speech This is an urgent intervention in illness and health, art and science, language and literature, life and death... At this point, Anne Boyer has created a work that records the experience of life itself, which is thought-provoking and has a long-lasting resonance.
—Sally Rooney, author of "Chats" and "Normal People," a passionate and eloquent memoir about a courageous woman's battle with breast cancer, speaking with courageous clarity about her own mortality. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey through "my aching body," "the hollowness of grief," and "the profoundness of loss."
—Kirkus Reviews
In this fierce and extraordinary work, the pink ribbon, long the ubiquitous symbol of breast cancer, both beloved and controversial, is untied from its delicate bow, then thrown into a shredder and burned to destroy the remains.
—The New York Times
The book's thesis is both grand and nuanced. How profit drives loss and death, how the "victim's fault theory" is enshrined as law, and how systems cause disability and even death—before this book, the gender politics of illness have rarely been interpreted so clearly and elegantly.
—Harper's Magazine
Boyer writes with precision and comprehensiveness, intimate and philosophical, and with an almost surreal level of self-awareness. She records pain while being incredibly close to it… Like Susan Sontag, she entered the inferno of cancer lucidly and weathered the ordeal of lucidity in a way that was unusual for most people.
—Los Angeles Review of Books
A beautiful and unforgiving memoir... It slashes like a righteous blade through the familiar and tired narrative of heroism in the breast cancer industry. Call it a battle cry, a rage-filled elegy, or a manifesto for women who will not allow themselves to be robbed—whatever it is, this book is not to be missed.
——Publishers Weekly

2023-01-01

译林出版社

296

9787544793605