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Notes on an Emergency

Notes on an Emergency

Notes on an Emergency

Elizabeth Léonie Simpson

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iUniverse
Año de edición:
2005
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780595358502
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This challenging, probing work about a woman’s recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most especially, love.

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