El mal dormir

"I have always slept badly. This is one of the fundamental facts of my life." Thus begins this book about the experience of those who, like the author, have sleep problems. This is not about extreme insomnia, but rather that persistent difficulty sleeping that, although it allows us to lead a reasonably normal life, marks our relationship with the night, with the day, with work, with the people around us, and It leads us to feelings of loneliness, failure and frustration. Based on the social and cultural history of sleep, as well as his own experiences and those of others, David Jiménez Torres portrays the daily experience of the sleeper in a fast-paced society. Is it true that today we sleep worse than ever? Are we victims of modern work schedules, of "24/7 capitalism" and of our mobile screens? Bad Sleep is a luminous meditation on a disorder as ordinary as it is mysterious, which aims to show an unknown aspect of existence to those who do not have sleep problems and offer those who do have the tenuous relief of recognition.