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Sleepless
A Memoir of Insomnia
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Sleepless is both a personal account of the author's inability to sleep and a poetic survey of a range of artists and others who have suffered from chronic insomnia—a book for everyone who has found sleep elusive.
The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can't.
What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the birth of her first child and continues more than twenty years later.
In Sleepless, she recounts her own experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, mostly writers, some of whom claim a connection between not sleeping and creativity. With her inimitable humour, she describes her countless attempts to find a remedy, including consulting a somnologist.
Darrieussecq discusses bedrooms, beds, the homeless, refugees, trauma, our wakefulness online, and how our relationship with animals is connected to whether we can sleep. Sleepless will awaken you to the otherness of our world.
Insomnia feeds off this bewildering feeling—there is something else.
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Reviews of Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq highlight its deep exploration of insomnia through personal narrative and cultural reflections. The book is praised for its intellectual depth, humour, and poetic style, weaving personal anecdotes with broader cultural insights. Critics commend Darrieussecq's insightful writing and the superb English translation for capturing the essence of the sleepless experience, making the work both relatable and thought-provoking.
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ISBN: 9781922790088
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 August 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 298g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 and is recognised as one of the leading voices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has written more than twenty books. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here- The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines and Sleepless. In 2013 Marie Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Medicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. She has written art criticism and journalism for a number of publications, including Liberation and Charlie Hebdo, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. Sleepless is her third non-fiction title published by Text. Marie lives in Paris. mariedarrieussecq.com Penny Hueston's translations from French include novels by Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Emmanuelle Pagano (One Day I'll Tell You Everything), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max) and Raphael Jerusalmy (Evacuation). She has translated seven books by Marie Darrieussecq and has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
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