Przepracować ból żałoby. O opowieści mykologicznej Powrót do życia Long Litt Woon
Working through the Pain of Grief. On Long Litt Woon’s Mycological Book The Way Through The Woods

Author(s): Małgorzata Okupnik
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Summary/Abstract: Long Litt Woon is a socioanthropologist and writer born in Malaysia and living in Norway since 1976. In 2017, she published a book titled The Way Through The Woods. On Mushrooms and Mourning (Polish edition: Powrót do życia. O żałobie i grzybach). She wrote it after the death of her husband, Eiolf Olsen. The book represents narra- tives of grief, the authors of which seek consolation in the nature. For Long Litt Woon, mushrooms have not only been a symbol of bereavement. The newly-discovered passion gave the young widow a reason to live. In her book, two threads intertwine: the mycological one (description of the Fungi kingdom and of the mushroom-picking community) and the one related to mourning (description of a severe trial affecting the physical, mental and emotional sphere). The socioanthropological and mycothera- peutic perspective is unique and it distinguishes Long Litt Woon’s narrative from other bereavement-related autobiographies.

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