EN
In her text The Angels Know Their Profession Agata Paluch makes a heroic attempt to assess the value of life in general. She mentions its passing commonly unseen in the hasty chaos of small matters. The author presents the evolution of her attitude to illness, conventional medicine and different ways of self-curing. All her struggles are full of dignity, general fight for keeping health as well as a distance to herself, her weakness and the whole process of curing. She refuses to accept the illness and her unattractive body and that defines the narratorauthor’s identity. There are 22 reports about illness weaved into Zuza’s Diary, which is the axis of the book. They describe the suffering and the leaving of people in order to show that all people around die and that the Evil is the immanent feature of the world. The illness does not roll in the void of life and by combining the Diary with the reports the author creates a new quality of this prose. It turns it into a kind of parable of the human, earthly holiness.