Troubled Sleep Author:Jean-Paul Sartre A powerful, passionate and ironic analysis of the psychology of defeat." Thus the London Times characterized TROUBLED SLEEP. Yet, on the most profound level, this deeply moving novel encompasses far more than defeat. — Ranging from New York to Paris, from the last futile battles against the Wehrmacht to the grim struggle for survival in a German ... more »prisoner-of-war camp, the novel illumines courage as well as cowardice, hope as well as the blackest despair. It is at once a vivid rendering of an intensely poignant moment in history, and an indelible portrayal of the total spectrum of human feelings and reactions in a time of shattering collapse. As the New Republic declared, liThe virtues of Sartre are superbly exemplified ... a historian and a topnotch reporter ... a psychologist who can pink a man or a woman in a few deft phrases ... a poet-dramatist whose settings and dialogue are fiercely graphic ... a born story-teller."« less