The Bedroom

An Intimate History

De: Michelle Perrot, Lauren Elkin - translator

Narrado por: Christa Lewis

The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating audiobook explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives - the bedroom.

Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, and the night and its mysteries.

Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging audiobook follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom - birth, sex, illness, death - in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.

©2009; 2018 Éditions du Seuil; English translation by Lauren Elkin (P)2018 Tantor

Wonderful ✨🛏️✨

I love such books that explore the cultural history of such subjects like bedrooms.

it's stunning how the author called upon all these objects & subjects that surround bedrooms.

The narrator is excellent 👏🏿