Insomnia

Alberts Bels

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781912109425
• eBook ISBN: 9781913640019
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Originally written in 1967 and not released in its uncensored form until 2003, Alberts Bels infamous novel, Insomnia (translated from the Latvian, Bezmiegs) has become aclassic of Cold War writing and continues to exert a major influence over Latvian literature.The story is filtered through the thoughts, emotions and fantasies of the main character, a man of detachment who is content to observe his fellow tenants and the wider world around him from the tired luxury of his apartment and daily routines.When a young woman, fleeing some unknown threat and in desperate need of help, comes into his orbit, he's forced out of this inertia and into the active role of protector. There begins a quest which, for both of them, has the power to jolt them into a new way of being and living.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About Alberts Bels and Jayde Will
• Title Page
• Translator’s introduction
• The Order of Events
• Conclusion of the Expert Commission Concerning A. Bels’s Novel Insomnia
• The opinion of the Literary-Scientific Expert Commission
• Insomnia
• Midnight 1
• Midnight 2
• Midnight 3
• Midnight 4
• Midnight 5
• Midnight 6
• Midnight 7
• The Witching Hour 1
• The Witching Hour 2
• The Witching Hour 3
• The Witching Hour 4
• The Witching Hour 5
• The Witching Hour 6
• The Witching Hour 7
• The Rooster Hour 1
• The Rooster Hour 2
• The Rooster Hour 3
• The Rooster Hour 4
• The Rooster Hour 5
• The Rooster Hour 6
• The Rooster Hour 7
• Part Two – Monologues at Night
• Dina’s Monologue
• Monologue of Lonely Mother Frosya
• Monologue of a Student in the House on the Right Side
• The Monologue of Asters’s Wife Anna
• Grīzkalniete’s Monologue
• Monologue of Dračūns’s Older Daughter
• Monologue of Dračūns’s Younger Daughter
• Monologue of Asters’s Son Kārlis
• Asters’s Monologue
• Dračūns’s Monologue
• The Master’s Monologue
• Commander Evian Steele’s Monologue
• Master Stonemason Kelle’s Monologue
• Bailiff Dārziņš’s Monologue
• Part Three
• The Twilight Hour 1
• The Twilight Hour 2
• The Twilight Hour 3
• The Twilight Hour 4
• The Twilight Hour 5
• The Twilight Hour 6
• The Twilight Hour 7
• Sunrise 1
• Sunrise 2
• Sunrise 3
• Sunrise 4
• Sunrise 5
• Sunrise 6
• Sunrise 7
• Translator’s acknowledgements
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• Copyright