Published: November 30, 2018
The days of suffering in silence have gone. Today it seems the best thing an author can do with their illness is publicise it
In the new issue of the literary magazine Areté, its editor, the poet Craig Raine, accords an interesting distinction to the Irish writer and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. The issue contains several pieces by writers about their ailments; and Beckett, according to Raine, “has some claim to be the most chronically low-level unhealthy writer of recent times”.
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