O ciemności, skórze, metaforach i lekturach

This article describes the experience of chemotherapy from an autobiographical perspective, but in close connection with issues present in the discourses of contemporary humanities. The essay formulates questions about the possibility of including the experience of cancer and the consequences of its treatment in current diagnoses and critiques of the Anthropocene. It is also a personal narrative about crisis, illness, bodily weakness, and alienation, and reading as a restorative process. Keywords: cancer, restorative reading, chemotherapy, toxicity, mourning, body