An image of The Easy Life , a new book by Marguerite Duras, crossed my path this morning. How could this be? She died almost 30 years ago. Her work is still being translated into English?
OK. Looks like she wrote 34 novels. But also: she directed 16 films! Prolific.
Having been housebound for the past two days, I was able to read this remarkable book about a family of fourteen, twelve children, of which six–six!–of the sons became schizophrenic in their teens and twenties. An amazing feat of research which follows the family’s story, as well as those of the doctors working to understand this puzzling, difficult and disabling disease.
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