An utterly charming, elegantly written, deeply researched study of lying down: how to do it, how not to do it, why we like it, how we've done it in the past, and why we should keep doing it in the future.
We spend a good third of our life lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, suffering, and getting well. Bernd Brunner's ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales all in one, ranging from the history of the mattress to the "slow living movement" to Stone Age repose, and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.
And along the way, Brunner makes an eloquent case for the importance of lying down in a world that values ever greater levels of activity, arguing that time spent horizontally offers rewards that we'd do well not to ignore. Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view--the other side to our upright,
productive lives.
贝恩德·布伦纳（Bernd Brunner）
德国另类文学作家和跨领域作家，风趣博学，其作品往往蕴含丰富的文化史知识，同时也对社会现象作出了独到的见解和反思。
著有多部畅销的历史、科学及文学作品，如《月亮：从神话诗歌到奇幻科学的人类探索史》。散文集《伊斯坦布尔的野狗》入选2013年美国最佳旅行文学奖。现居伊斯坦布尔。