“Creative genius arises, in a few rare people, out of an early despair of loving …. Therein lies the strength and ruthlessness of their drive. Little wonder they are scarred or ill”. Proust (pictured right) was only one of many so afflicted. Review by Peter Lomas
Creative Malady
. By George Pickering. Pp. 327 + 8 plates. (Unwin and Allan: London, 1974.) £5.25.
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Lomas, P. Genius and the mortal afflictions. Nature 253, 381 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253381a0
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