Very affected by the illness of her husband, the wife of Paul Auster announces terrible news on Instagram. We explain it to you here!
The Invention of Solitude, Leviathan, Mr Vertigo, Brooklyn Follies : there are countless masterpieces that dot the bibliography of Paul Auster. The author of the canonical New York trilogy gave birth to more than fifteen novels during a long career of more than forty years. Added to this is a considerable amount of essays, plays, poems and screenplays written in the intervals of a private life upset by the death of his son Daniel on April 26, 2022, who had succumbed to the consequences of a heroin overdose. Today it is illness that deprives him of words to express his pain.
“My husband was diagnosed with a cancer in December after being ill for the months preceding“, announces on Instagram the writer Siri Hustvedt who shares the life of Paul Auster since 1981. She continues: “He’s currently being treated at Sloan Kettering, and I live in a place I’ve come to call Cancerland.“Terrible news coupled witha painful ordeal to overcome for the wife of Paul Auster. “Living with someone who has a cancer and who is bombarded with chemotherapy and immunotherapy is an adventure of closeness and separationadds this one. It’s not always easy to walk this tightrope…“Paul Auster has published his latest book, Blood Country: A History of Gun Violence in the United Stateslast February.
Internet users upset by Paul Auster’s illness
On Instagram, followers, regular readers and early fans have given their full support to Siri Hustvedt. “love and strength to you“, “Paul and you have encouraged us by your example to be better. Today we accompany you with love“, “Everything will be alright. Lots of love from afar but close in your heart“, “I am very sorry. I wish you both strength“, “What shocking news. Hope and courage to you both in your fight for life“, commented Internet users visibly moved by Paul Auster’s illness.