Voices of Maratuma: Between Schizophrenia and Writing

Abstract

Sometimes real-life stories can be captured in short tales, allowing the passage of time to be experienced and landscapes and textures to be felt through writing. Yet some stories cannot be fully conveyed through tales: fleeting stories, solitary pains, insipid characters that end up filling our hearts with comfort. The following narrative compiles various anecdotes of people living with schizophrenia, whose solitude accompanies them and whose experiences are sometimes unknown to society. Let us explore these stories of people with schizophrenia, condensed under a single name: Maratuma.