My Writing Journey with the Webers

In this chapter, I reflect on a writing and research process that entwines my own experiences of sleeplessness with those of the sociologist Max Weber and his spouse, Marianne. Wandering in the space on the interlaced fields of fiction, creative writing, narrative non-fiction, and cultural historical research has enabled to reach new ways of asking and answering. Free writing made the past more bodily, fleshy, even leaky, fragile, and at the same time, more attainable and understandable.