This Saturday, harsh news hit the world of literature when it emerged that the notable American writer Paul Auster He has cancer and has been undergoing treatment since December, with chemotherapy. “I’ve been away from Instagram for a while because my husband was diagnosed with cancer in December, following being ill for several months prior.”revealed on social networks the wife of the novelist, Siri Hustvedtnoting that he is now “being treated at Sloan Kettering in New York.”
For her part, she ironized that she “is living in a place she called ‘Cancerland'” and elaborated on the situation she is going through: “Living with someone who has cancer and is being bombarded with chemotherapy and immunotherapy is a closeness and separation adventure“.
In turn, he added: “Many people have crossed their borders, either because they are or have been sick or because they love someone, a parent, child, spouse or friend who has or has had cancer. Cancer is different for each person who has it. All human bodies are the same and no two are the same.“.
“Some people survive and some die. Everyone knows this, and yet living close to that truth changes everyday reality”said the 68-year-old woman and novelist along with a photo where she is seen kissing her husband’s forehead.
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“You have to be close enough to feel the nerve-wracking treatments as your own and far enough away to offer genuine help”Hustvedt said, adding: “Too much empathy can render a person useless! This tightrope is not always easy to tread, of course, but it is the true labor of love.”
Despite the fact that this 2023 Auster even released a book, A country bathed in bloodthe writer had been feeling ill for months since before receiving the diagnosis of cancer, of which no type or stage specified.
The pain does not stop: the death of Paul Auster’s son and granddaughter
This is not the first blow that both the writer and his family have received, since in 2022 they went through the dramatic circumstance of the drug overdose death of his son 44 years old, Daniel Austerwho was free on bail in the case of the death of his 10-month-old baby.
The son of Paul Auster, accused of the murder of his 10-month-old daughter, was found dead of an overdose
Daniel’s daughter and writer’s granddaughter, Ruby, died in November 2021 when she was just ten months old from heroin and fentanyl exposure and overdose, plunging the Auster family into another terrible trance. When the tragic event occurred, the little girl was in the care of her father, which is why he was charged with manslaughter. And following those devastating blows, Auster’s health is now at another limit.
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