Marie Darrieussecq

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Sleepless: A Memoir of InsomniaPaperback, 5 September 2023

Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
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Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Date Published
5 Sep 2023
ISBN-10
1635901774
ISBN-13
9781635901771

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A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature's most elegant voices.

Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. "Insomniac mornings are dead mornings," she observes. Prevented from falling asleep by her dread of exhaustion the next day, Darrieussecq turns to hypnosis, psychoanalysis, alcohol, pills, and meditation. Her entrapment within this spiraling anguish prompts her inspired, ingenious search across literature, geopolitical history, psychoanalysis, and her own experience to better understand where insomnia comes from and what it might mean. There are those, she writes, in Rwanda, whose vivid memories of genocide leave them awake and transfixed by complete horror; there is the insomnia of the unhoused, who have nowhere to put their heads down. The hyperconnection of urban professional life transforms her bedroom from a haven to a dormant electrified node.

Ranging between autobiography, clinical observation, and criticism, Sleepless is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.

Product Details

Author:
Marie Darrieussecq
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 September 2023
Genre:
French
ISBN-10:
1635901774
ISBN-13:
9781635901771
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Weight:
367.41 gm

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