“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.” In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of […]
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
– William Styron
September 11, 2014 By
“It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.” Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness is U.S. writer William Styron’s memoir about his descent into depression, and the triumph of recovery. First published in December 1989 in Vanity Fair, the book grew out of a lecture that Styron originally delivered at a symposium […]
