Last Updated on September 15, 2022 by ADMIN-TOM
As an avid writer and erstwhile sufferer of a couple of debilitating illnesses, I’ve done my best to not let this stop my writing progress. But it has been hard over the first six months of this year. And now treatment has started, I’m hoping to catch up on my various projects that have been on a back burner.
But to be honest, I feel a bit of a fraud. I’ve discovered while doing some research that there is a famous writer who not only wrote influential books, but also wrote a lot of them, and at the same time, he suffered from a wide variety of illnesses. I’ve never read any of his works, but he’s fast becoming a writing hero to me. And that’s from one man whose roots go back to France to a famous son of France, Monsieur Marcel Proust.
Proust was a French novelist who wrote the multi volume In Search of Lost Time. The original was published in French in seven volumes and was written between 1913 and 1927.
Proust is considered by critics and his peers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
But ill health dogged him from an early age. Proust suffered from Asthma from the age of nine and it was an illness that was so unknown and unknowable, even to this day, that even his own father, a professor of medicine was at a loss to know what was best.
Proust spent years as an adult living in a variety of fresh air climates to help cure himself. But at the same time spent a lot of time and money on quack cures.
On November 18, 1922, Proust died in Paris of pneumonia, succumbing to a weakness of the lungs that many had mistaken for a form of hypochondria.
And yet, in all that time he was ill, he still managed to write some of the most influential work of the 20th century.
Like I said, I feel a bit of a fraud, dear reader. So, onwards and upwards and let’s get writing more.
Tom Kane © June 2022
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