By turns comic and poignant, brutal and beautiful, 'Sleep,' translated by Ann Colcord with Hugh Shankland, follows an insomniac's long journey to the light through a night of tormenting memories and lucid drunken speculation. A sequence of bizarre encounters with other lonely and despicable denizens of the night leads him to recover some meaning to his life: release from his dead mother's incapacity for love, his yearning for 'the first whore,' for 'the unknown house,' for sleep...
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By turns comic and poignant, brutal and beautiful, 'Sleep,' translated by Ann Colcord with Hugh Shankland, follows an insomniac's long journey to the light through a night of tormenting memories and lucid drunken speculation. A sequence of bizarre encounters with other lonely and despicable denizens of the night leads him to recover some meaning to his life: release from his dead mother's incapacity for love, his yearning for 'the first whore,' for 'the unknown house,' for sleep...
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