Troubled Sleep

Troubled Sleep (French: La mort dans l'âme) 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

Works of Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels and short stories
  • Nausea (1938)
  • The Wall (1939)
  • The Age of Reason (1945)
  • The Reprieve (1945)
  • In The Mesh (1948)
  • Troubled Sleep (1949)
  • Intimacy (1949)
  • Hurricane over Cuba (1961)
Plays and screenplays
  • Bariona (1940)
  • The Flies (1943)
  • No Exit (1944)
  • Morts sans sépulture (1945)
  • The Respectful Prostitute (1946)
  • The Chips Are Down (1947)
  • Dirty Hands (1948)
  • The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
  • Kean (1953)
  • Nekrassov (1955)
  • The Condemned of Altona (1959)
  • The Trojan Woman (1965)
  • The Freud Scenario (1984)
Philosophical essays
  • "Imagination: A Psychological Critique" (1936)
  • "The Transcendence of the Ego" (1936)
  • "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions" (1939)
  • "The Imaginary" (1940)
  • "Being and Nothingness" (1943)
  • "Existentialism is a Humanism" (1946)
  • "Search for a Method" (1957)
  • "Critique of Dialectical Reason" (1960, 1985)
  • "Notebooks for an Ethics" (1983)
  • "Truth and Existence" (1989)
Critical essays
  • "Anti-Semite and Jew" (1943)
  • "Situations I - X (1947–1976)
  • "Black Orpheus" (1948)
  • "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr" (1952)
  • "The Henri Martin Affair" (1953)
  • "The Family Idiot" (1971–2)
Autobiographical
  • Sartre By Himself (1959)
  • The Words (1964)
  • Witness to My Life & Quiet Moments in a War (1983)
  • War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War (1984)
Related topics
  • Authenticity
  • Bad faith (mauvaise foi)
  • Existence precedes essence
  • Texts
  • Quotes
  • Media


Famous quotes containing the words troubled and/or sleep:

    “Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
    The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
    There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
    The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)