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Anatomy Of Depression

National Book Award-winning author
examines the roots of a debilitating disease.

SANDEE BRAWARSKY

Special to the Jewish News

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ndrew Solomon compares
depression to a vine that
twists itself entirely around a
tree, so that it's impossible to
see any border between vine and tree.
Solomon, whose previous works
include the novel A Stone Boat and the
book The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in
a Time of Glasnost, calls his lifelong
depression "this thing that was crush-
ing me without holding me.
"It had a life of its own
that bit-by-bit asphyxiated
all of my life out of me."
Solomon's book, The

was committed to Jewish causes. As he
reveals more of his life, parallels between
their lives become clear.

Flip Side Of Love
"Depression is the flaw in love,"

Solomon states in his book's opening
lines. "To be creatures who love, we
must be creatures who can despair at
what we lose, and depression is the
mechanism of that despair.
"When it comes, it degrades one's
self and ultimately eclipses the capaci-
ty to give or receive affec-
tion ... Love, though it is no
prophylactic against depres-
sion, is what cushions the
d a y
mind and protects it from
Noonday Demon: An Atlas
o n
itself."
of Depression might appear
In 1998, Solomon wrote a
solemn, but his elegant
personal,
yet objective essay,
prose style, candor and
"The Anatomy of
compassion make it a
Melancholy," for the New
compelling, rich work
An A
Yorker magazine. After the
that's full of wit.
essay
appeared, he received
Published this summer,
Depre
more
than 1,000 letters
it is a New York Times best
Andrew S
readers,
relieved to
from
seller and was just awarded
find
a
place
to
share their
the National Book
"Depression is the
own experiences with
Foundation's 2001
fla w in love," says
depression. He wrote this
National Book Award for
author Andrew
book not as a cathartic exer-
nonfiction.
Solomon in the
cise but with the hope of
The author's personal
National Book
helping others.
story of suffering from a
Award-winner "The
About three quarters of
debilitating illness that
Noonday Demon."
the
way through the writ-
afflicts 19 million
ing, he realized he was ulti-
Americans is woven into
mately telling the stories of remarkable
this comprehensive volume, which
people
and their successes. "By seeing
details the history, chemistry and
how
many
kinds of resilience and
treatment of the disease, with literary,
strength
and
imagination are to be
philosophical, scientific, political and
found,"
he
now
says, "one can appreci-
cross-cultural perspectives.
ate
not
only
the
horror of depression
Solomon lives in a Greenwich
but also the complexity of human
Village brownstone that was home to
vitality."
poet and humanitarian Emma Lazarus
In researching the book, he traveled
at the end of her brief life at age 38.
to
many places, including Cambodia,
The 37-year old author says he identi-
where
he expected "to be humbled by
fies with Lazarus, author of the words
the
pain
of others."
that appear on the base of the Statue
"I was humbled down to the
of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your
ground," he says.
poor; Your huddled masses yearning to
In Cambodia, he met Nobel Prize
breathe free ..."
candidate
Phaly Nuon, who set up an
"She was someone who liked luxury a
orphanage
and a center for depressed
lot but was deeply committed to help-
iNomen
in
Phnom Penh. Nuon tells
ing the poor," Solomon says. He points
Solomon
that
one of the first things
out that she never married; that she was
she
does
with
the women, who suf-
much
a
part
of
the
literary
life
of
very
her day; that she was able to move easily fered terribly at the hands of the
Khmer Rouge, is to teach them how
between different worlds; and that she