The Future Lasts Forever

A Memoir

Browse Return to Previous Page       Related Subjects All Subjects Critical Theory/Marxism

by Louis Althusser,

Edited by Olivier Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang,

Translated by Richard Veasey

New Press

Due/Published March 1995, 364 pages, paper

ISBN 1565842782

The Future Lasts Forever is the famous French philosopher Louis Althusser's memoir written during his years of confinement in a mental hospital after murdering his wife. Reminiscent to many readers of Strindberg's Diary of a Madman and Styron's Darkness Visible, The Future Lasts Forever is a profound yet subtle exercise in documenting madness from the inside. This paperback edition also includes Althusser's earlier autobiographical essay "The Facts," as well as a preface by Douglas Johnson, Emeritus Professor of French at London University.