Sleepless A Memoir Of Insomnia Marie Darrieussecq Penny Hueston Translation by Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston (translation) 9781922790088, 1922790087 instant download after payment.

The world is divided into those who can sleep & 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 & 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 insomnia & 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, & 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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Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969 & is recognised as one of the leadingvoices of contemporary French literature. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into 35 languages. She has written more than 20 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 & Sleepless. In 2013 Marie Darrieussecq was awarded the Prix Médicis & the Prix des Prix for her novel Men. She has written art criticism & journalism for a number of publications, including Libération & Charlie Hebdo, is a translator from English & has practised as a psychoanalyst. Sleepless is her third non-fiction title published by Text. Marie lives in Paris.

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Penny Hueston has translated six books by Marie Darrieussecq—All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, & Crossed Lines. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.