Cosnett J E
Department of Medicine, Wentworth Hospital, Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Sleep. 1992 Jun;15(3):264-7. doi: 10.1093/sleep/15.3.264.
Using the characters of his novels as the canvas, Charles Dickens painted vivid word pictures of a variety of manifestations of sleep and its disorders. These were presumably based on the author's own experiences and those of family and friends. Dickens was, himself, a self-confessed episodic insomniac. For this he devised the unique therapy of long night walks. This article illustrates, by a few selected quotations, this hitherto unpublicized aspect of the author's life and works.
查尔斯·狄更斯以其小说中的人物为画布，用生动的文字描绘了睡眠及其障碍的各种表现形式。这些大概是基于作者本人以及家人和朋友的经历。狄更斯本人承认自己患有发作性失眠。为此，他设计了独特的疗法——长夜漫步。本文通过一些精选的引文，展现了作者生活和作品中这一迄今未被公开的方面。
