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The waking nightmare

After years of insomnia, Marie Darrieussecq derives some comfort from finding herself in the company of Kafka, Kant, Proust, Dostoevsky, Borges and Plath

12 August 2023

9:00 AM

12 August 2023

9:00 AM

Sleepless Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston

Fitzcarraldo, pp.320, 14.99

To sleep or not to sleep – that is the question the French writer Marie Darrieussecq asks in her latest book, which explores the insomnia that has haunted her for 20 years since the birth of her first child. From that date, she writes, it ‘has attached itself to me like a small ghost’.

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