num_pages: 256
description: On November 16, 1980, Louis Althusser, while massaging his wife's neck, discovered that he had strangled her. The world-renowned French philosopher was immediately confined to an insane asylum where he authored this memoir--a profound yet subtle exercise in documenting madness from the inside.
language: English
title: The Future Lasts a Long Time.
titlecomplete: The Future Lasts a Long Time.
genres: Literature, Psychology, History, Biography, Memoir, Philosophy, France, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 266
publisher: Vintage