Sleepless
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What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? In Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq recounts her own experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, writers and artists including Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras and Franz Kafka.
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. In Sleepless, she recounts her own experiences alongside those of fellow insomniacs, mostly writers – ‘as if writing were not sleeping’ – Ovid, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Franz Kafka, Georges Perec and others. With her inimitable humour, she describes her dealings with a somnologist and her attempts to find a remedy – trying sleeping pills, cannabis, alcohol, bedtime rituals, acupuncture, yoga, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, a gravity blanket and a range of sleep-aid devices. Darrieussecq considers bedrooms, beds, clinophilia (‘the tendency to remain in a prone position without sleeping for prolonged periods of time’), her need to be alone in bed, those without beds, the homeless, refugees, trauma and capitalism’s role in sleeplessness, our constant wakefulness online, the forest as a hypnagogic zone and how our relationship with animals is connected to our sleep, or lack of it. Ranging between autobiography, clinical observation and criticism, Sleepless is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 augustus 2023
Aantal pagina's: 272
Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Marie Darrieussecq
Hoofduitgeverij: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Eerste Vertaler: Penny Hueston
Originele titel: Sleepless: Marie Darrieussecq
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee
Editie: 1st edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 125 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 125 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm
Verpakking lengte: 197 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 268 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781804270653