Montano's Malady begins in Nantes on the west coast of France, where José, the narrator, has left his fairly routine writer’s existence in Barcelona to visit his son Montano. Both José and his son suffer from a form of “literature-sickness;” in the case of Montano, the malady is writer’s block. For José it's an inability to think of the world in any terms other than literary. W...(展开全部)

The Malady of Death (French: La Maladie de la mort) is a 1982 novella by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a man who pays a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea.

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's coronavirus response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surge...(展开全部)

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's coronavirus response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surge...(展开全部)

艾莱恩*肖瓦尔特（Elaine Showalter）博士，美国普林斯顿大学英语系教授，从事英美文学研究，涉猎范围广泛，包括维多利亚小说，英国小说，女权主义文学批评，妇女研究，英国医学史等，著述丰富。《他们自己的文学：从博朗特到多利丝*莱辛》、《新女权主义批评》《混乱的性别》《姐妹的选择 美国妇女写作中的传统与变革》《论性别》《弗洛伊德之后的歇斯底里》以及本书等。

艾莱恩*肖瓦尔特（Elaine Showalter）博士，美国普林斯顿大学英语系教授，从事英美文学研究，涉猎范围广泛，包括维多利亚小说，英国小说，女权主义文学批评，妇女研究，英国医学史等，著述丰富。《他们自己的文学：从博朗特到多利丝*莱辛》、《新女权主义批评》《混乱的性别》《姐妹的选择 美国妇女写作中的传统与变革》《论性别》《弗洛伊德之后的歇斯底里》以及本书等。

In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women specifically sexual connotations. Along with vivid portraits of the men who dominated psychiatry, and descriptions of the therapeuti...(展开全部)