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Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories.
Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan's stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from I Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958), and stories of addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Kavan's turn to science fiction in her final novel, Ice, is reflected in her late stories, while...]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 02:16:05 +0300 https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66891-who_are_you_.html https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66891-who_are_you_.html
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A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem.

In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden and save her before the ice closes all around. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of violence and trauma, a Kafkaesque literary dreamscape, and a brilliant allegory...]]> Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:31:10 +0200 https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66895-let_me_alone.html https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66895-let_me_alone.html
The mother of ‘Anna’ in this novel dies in childbirth and she brought up by her father and a governess, in a remote Pyrenean village. When she is thirteen, her father shoots himself and she Is adopted by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt who stows her in a boarding school. She forms friendships at the school but her freedom is abruptly curtailed when the aunt forces her into a loveless marriage: she comes to detest her husband and bourgeois family but cannot break away and finds herself marooned with him in Burma, where the story climaxes.]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:31:10 +0200 https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66889-sleep_has_his_house.html https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66889-sleep_has_his_house.html
A classic later novel by Anna Kavan. A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, this daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation chronicles the subject's gradual withdrawal from the daylight world of received reality. Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence, and youth are described in what is defined as "nighttime language"—a heightened, decorative prose that frees these events from their gloomy associations.The novel suggests we have all spoken this dialect in childhood and in our dreams, but these thoughts can only be sharpened or decoded by contemplation in the dark. Revealing that side of life which is never seen by the waking eye but which dreams and drugs can suddenly emphasize, this startling discovery illustrates how these nighttime illuminations reveal the narrator's joy for the living world.]]> Sun, 01 Nov 1992 13:31:09 +0200 https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66892-guilty_the_lost_classic_novel.html https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66892-guilty_the_lost_classic_novel.html
Set in an unspecified but eerily familiar time and landscape, this is the story of Mark, a protagonist who struggles against the machinations of a hostile society and bureaucracy. Suffering at first from the persecution of his father as a conscientious objector, his life quickly comes under the control of the Machiavellian Mr. Spector, an influential government minister who arranges Mark’s education, later employment, and even accommodation. It is when Mark tries to break free from Spector’s influence that his life begins to unravel.]]> Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:31:10 +0200 https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66893-i_am_lazarus_peter_owen_modern_classic.html https://westerns.library.land/anna-kavan/66893-i_am_lazarus_peter_owen_modern_classic.html
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