I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
That’s a very apt comparison. I read a fair whack of Benjamin at University and ended up getting a tattoo of Le Flâneur by Paul Gavarni after reading some of his stuff as a kind of trbute to him and Baudelaire.
I’d love to see a picture of it