by Jonathan Coe · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070412570
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«La Maison du sommeil» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jonathan Coe, published by Folio in paperback (480 pages, in French).
In Ashdown, a house on a cliff on the English coast, there is first a university residence and years later a sleep clinic. There, Sarah, Gregory, Veronica, Robert and Terry, former companions, meet again, while Doctor Dudden carries out disturbing experiments on dreams.
The work was originally published in 1997 as The House of Sleep, in English. The French translation, signed by Jean Pavans, won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1998.
For readers with a command of French interested in contemporary literary fiction.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
