Lélia

Lélia by George Sand

An exploration of the life of a woman who believes that God has abandoned her, Lélia is more like a prose poem than a novel: lyrical, brooding, and sometimes difficult. There are numerous references to sleep in Lélia, including two prominent scenes of sleep voyeurism, in which the observer intensely desires the sleeping figure, but is ultimately unable to satisfy that desire.

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(French) Sand, George. Lélia. Ed. Pierre Reboul. Paris: Garnier, 1960.

(English) Sand, George. Lélia. Trans. Maria Espinosa. Indiana UP, 1978.