''Troubled Sleep'' (french: La mort dans l'âme, published in the United Kingdom as ''Iron in the Soul'' is a 1949 novel by
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...
. 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
1949 novels
French philosophical novels
Novels by Jean-Paul Sartre
Novels set during World War II
Novels set in France
Fiction set in 1940
Novels set in the 1940s
Éditions Gallimard books
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