"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."
The third novel in Sartre's renowned "Roads to Freedom" series, "Troubled Sleep," vividly portrays the fall of France in 1940 and the agonizing emotions of a group of Frenchmen whose pre-war apathy gives way to a consciousness of individual resistance — against both German occupation and fate itself — and solidarity with oppressed individuals.