''Troubled Sleep'' (, 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 a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...

. 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

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1949 French 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 {{1940s-WWII-novel-stub