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The Unsleeping Eye
The Unsleeping Eye may refer to: * The Unsleeping Eye (novel), a 1974 science fiction novel by D. G. Compton * The Unsleeping Eye (film), a 1928 British film {{DEFAULTSORT:Unsleeping Eye, The ...
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The Unsleeping Eye (novel)
''The Unsleeping Eye'' is a 1974 science fiction novel by British writer David G. Compton. It was published in the United Kingdom as ''The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe'' in 1974 and was filmed by Bertrand Tavernier in 1980 as ''Death Watch'', starring Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider and Max von Sydow. Subsequent editions of the novel were published as ''Death Watch''. Premise The story is set in the near future, in a welfare state. A journalist is operated on so that what he sees is transmitted to a TV studio. He pursues a woman who is dying of an incurable disease, and provides viewers with voyeuristic images of her private anguish. Reception Theodore Sturgeon praised ''The Unsleeping Eye'' as a novel that "fulfills all of its extraordinary promise." In 2016, Jeff VanderMeer wrote, "In an age in which privacy isn’t just vanishing but willfully renounced, ''The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe'' seems not only relevant but proactively current." Reiter The book was repub ...
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