wie klug dieses vermeintlich dumme Tier mit den schönen Augen ist – und wie viel wir von ihm lernen können

to restore a degraded nature

the mystery of death

Greek music

Sleepless Gollancz wie klug dieses vermeintlich dummePlagued 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