Visible darkness | William Styron

In the summer of 1985, the famous American novelist William Styron felt paralyzed, due to feelings of anger, resentment, indifference, despair, and the loss of the ability to speak and walk, which possessed him when he fell into the grip of advanced depression, swallowed his life, and left him on the verge of suicide. In these remarkable memoirs, the great novelist describes his destructive fall into depression, taking us on an unprecedented journey into the world of madness, full of revealing reflections on a disease that affects millions, but is still widely misunderstood. This moving and brave text, skillfully translated by Anwar Al-Shami, is an intimate picture of Styron's suffering in his ordeal and in his path to recovery.