The Doctor and Death
- 1 January 2008
- book chapter
- Published by Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract
ExtractIf you can make me believe what you believe I will give you my remaining eye with gladness. Axel Munthe to the Swedish Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, 1931 Munthe’s correspondence during the 1930s was dominated by his literary successes. But introspection and the need for acknowledgement were only some of the facets of Munthe’s richly cut personality. For just as often as he asked himself and others why the book had been such a success, in letter after letter he would be posing questions about death and what came after it. His fascination with death went back a long way. This was what had enticed him to Naples and Messina and to the frontline during the First World War. It was this that had precipitated him into life-threatening Alpine adventures. It was this that had made him decorate a wall in the Villa San Michele with a mosaic depicting a skeleton...Keywords
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