by Daniel Keyes · Calmann-Lévy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702138014
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«Les mille et une vies de Billy Milligan» is the non-fiction novel by Daniel Keyes, published by Calmann-Lévy in paperback (464 pages, in French).
After the arrest of Billy Milligan, accused of several crimes, a psychiatric evaluation reveals that his mind houses twenty-four personalities. Keyes reconstructs this real case from interviews with them and with the psychiatrists who tried to integrate them, exploring the limits of identity and mental illness.
The original work, The Minds of Billy Milligan, was published in 1981; this French edition, translated by Jean-Pierre Carasso, belongs to the Interstices collection.
For readers interested in true crime, psychology and identity disorders, as well as in the work of Daniel Keyes.
Daniel Keyes was an American writer best known as the author of the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
