by Jonathan Coe · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070749683
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«La Maison du sommeil» is Jonathan Coe's novel, published by Gallimard in 1998 in paperback (432 pages, in French).
Four students reunite in Ashdown, a former university residence turned sleep clinic. Sarah, a narcoleptic, confuses dreams with memories; Robert carries a misunderstanding; Terry is an obsessive cinephile; and Dr Gregory sees sleep as a disease. A dreamlike novel combining social critique, comedy and unease.
The House of Sleep, original English title, was published in 1997. The French translation is by Jean Pavans and the work won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy stories with humour, dreamlike atmosphere and social critique.
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.
