Famous writers who have struggled with alcohol addiction

Some of the writers felt that without drinking his muse leave him, someone - without alcohol audience will stop loving him, for someone the bottle was an integral part of leisure activities, for someone to escape from his own demons. The causes of alcoholism in a creative environment are different, in the end, writers and poets - the same people, like everyone else, and to overcome their dependence on their own them just as hard as the others. In our review - five writers who had to combine alcohol with the creation of their creative masterpieces.

Yesenin

On the predilection to alcoholism Yesenin written and spoken almost all the time from the first years of the poet's popularity until his death. In his last years such articles have been particularly harsh - Esenina accused of drunkenness, riot, fights and anti-social behavior. Thus, while earlier in the United States, the poet's contemporaries said that he was drunk, so that with him happened seizures.

In the opinion of Anatoly Marienhof, early in his career Yesenin purposely publicly drank to maintain thus its image mischievous revelers from the common people. But, as so often happens, to stop in time and to control himself he failed. "Shortly before his death hereditary alcoholism, gnawing Esenina took pathological - he wrote the poet Vladimir Kirillov. - Yesenin noticeably faded physically ... He became the impression of a man scorched some devastating internal fire. "

Yesenin and Sophia Tolstoy 1925.

The official version of the poet's death - suicide, although still continuing speculation about the murder of members of the OGPU. Anyway, at that time, therefore, most likely, she suffered greatly from depression associated with alcoholism, calling himself a "goner". However, many are of the opinion that it was thanks to his image, which became an integral part of alcohol and scandalous behavior poet Yesenin became so popular.

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (Jack Kerouac) once said: "I am a Catholic, so I can not commit suicide. But I plan to get drunk to death. " His passion is reflected in his novels, including his most famous works, "The Road" and "Naked Lunch". In 1958, when work on the novel "Naked Lunch" was in the process, a writer living in New York, wrote of him that "he remembered a local for the most part as a drunkard, wander around the neighborhood barefoot or in slippers."

Photo Kerouac documents the naval reserve in 1943.

It must be said that just two years later, Jack Kerouac poprobyval get rid of their addiction: he went to visit his friend's house, located far from cities close to nature. Returning home after three weeks, the writer has hit in this drunkenness, which was clearly much heavier than it was before.

He died writer as "planned" from excessive alcoholism: being drunk, he was wounded in a bar, and save it failed, since the writer is no longer the blood clot due to cirrhosis.

Ernest Hemingway

Passport photo of Hemingway in 1923.

Laureate and 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway) greatly influenced his works of literature of XX century. And while he combined his literary activity with constant alcoholism. Working Writer's office was located in a house on Key West near the lighthouse that Ernest found especially beautiful - after a night of heavy drinking could just go to the lighthouse and the light is not lost.

In 1954, after the publication of the novel "The Old Man and the Sea", the writer was in a terrible plane crash: the plane on which he was flying, crashed, and when it is, the wounded, the next day tried to be hospitalized on another plane, the second plane caught fire on take-off, because of what the writer was still burns and a concussion. Ernest injuries were so serious that the fact that he will be able to survive, few believed. After that, about Hemingway wrote that he "firmly addicted to alcohol for the rest of life, and began to drink even more than before, trying to numb the pain of the wounds."

Hemingway and Hadley in 1922.

At some point, Hemingway was in a terrible depression, which coexisted with paranoia. Writer ceased to communicate with his family and friends, was terribly irritable. It seemed to him that he was being watched all the FBI agents and his house is bugged bugs. Hemengueya psychiatrists tried to treat with the help of electric shock, and a few days after discharge from the hospital, he was shot from a gun, leaving a suicide note. Wicked irony of his situation is that it was declassified in the 1980s deal Hemengueya: the writer should really FBI and listen to his phone, his home, to read his letters and almost never left him unattended.

Stephen King

The king of horror in his career wrote more than 60 novels, not including collections of short stories and other works. His incredible creative fecundity was almost all the time side-by-side with a strong alcohol and drug abuse. As acknowledged by the author himself, several of his novels he wrote in such a strong intoxication, that still does not remember how he wrote them - in particular, "Cujo" novel.

With the advent of Fame (after the success of "Carrie" novel), Stephen King just did not get out of alcohol and drug failures. The writer felt that without all that, he is just not able to write, or without alcohol and cocaine, his muse leave him. Perhaps this is partly true and is - the most successful writer's works were written in the most difficult from the point of view of health period.

To cope with the demons of the writer helped his wife. Tired of self-destructive behavior of her husband, she had once raked all grist Stephen from around the house, dumped this huge pile of bottles and pills, packages and cans before any in his office and told him that if he does not change his life, Stephen lost his family - only than the writer truly valued.

After several unsuccessful attempts to cope with alcoholism, King still managed to pull myself together. His first novel, written in a sober, was the novel "The necessary things," which was later made into a movie also. Muse has not disappeared.

Sergei Dovlatov

A friend of Sergei Dovlatov Alexander Genis recalled: "Sergei hated their binges and furiously fought with them." Writer very worried that his works were not published, that only aggravated his alcoholism. Sometimes, when he receives orders and Dovlatov fully immersed in the work, he would forget about alcohol, and did not touch the bottle for several months. This was followed by a protracted period of hard drinking, so his wife had to ring up his friends, trying to find where this time brought her husband.

Genis wrote: "He did not drink for years, but vodka, like a shadow at noon, waiting patiently in the wings. Recognizing its power, Sergey wrote shortly before his death: "If I do not drink over the years, it remembers it, cursed, from morning till night. '" The writer died of heart failure at age 48.