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My view is that if you lived in a society where there was a lot of pressure on you to excel academically, to adopt a certain identity and to endure a war, you might end up going a bit nuts. Not to mention the violence in Marechera’s life — of course he would have hit his teenage years just as the civil war gained steam. He was born in 56 and it was raging by about 1970, reaching its intensity in 76.
Somebody who applies the Western standards of a sedate European life to someone who did not experience those things might well come up with a diagnosis of the problem that suggests the mental anguish appeared from nowhere, except perhaps from the author’s biology.
But of course there was a context to it all — one easily overlooked by those who haven’t experienced the way societal changes can impact on their own psyches.
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