Troubled Sleep

Troubled Sleep  

Cover of the 1992 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Troubled Sleep, Vintage Press edition.
Author(s) Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title La mort dans l'âme
Translator Eric Sutton
Country France
Language French
Series The Roads to Freedom
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Gallimard, Knopf, Vintage
Publication date 1949
Published in
English
1950
Pages 432
ISBN ISBN 0-679-74079-1 (Vintage)
OCLC Number 25026369
Dewey Decimal 843/.914 20
LC Classification PQ2637.A82 M5613 1992
Preceded by The Reprieve

Troubled Sleep (or La mort dans l'âme, in the original French) is a 1949 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. The book was originally translated as Iron in the Soul. It is the third part in the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom).

"The third novel in Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, Troubled Sleep powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished feelings of a group of Frenchmen whose pre-war apathy gives way to a consciousness of the dignity of individual resistance - to the German occupation and to fate in general - and solidarity with people similarly oppressed." - Random House