The story of Guillermo Saccomanno
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Florencia Ungar faces the challenge of staying awake every night while the world sleeps. Insomnia, her most faithful companion and at the same time her most ruthless adversary, has led her to wander, in a kind of lucid sleepwalking, along Rivadavia Avenue, immersing herself in the darkness of the night and her own thoughts. In The Longest Insomnia, we follow the wandering and desperate steps of the protagonist in her incessant search for peace, a fight against the silence of the night and the roar of her own fears.
From the memory of nightly chess games to the paralyzing fear born of loneliness and chronic insomnia, Guillermo Saccomano reflects on memory, fear, identity and the search for connection in a world that seems asleep
Originally published in The suffering of ordinary beings in 2019, and in Collected stories In 2023, the story evokes the sombre poetry of sleepless nights and the eternal question of what it really means to be awake. Flor, with her insomnia as a shield and prison, invites us to question our own fears and loneliness. A story about the value of facing darkness, both that of the night and that which lives within us.