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  • Ice

    The hypnotic dystopian cult classic

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **This dystopian science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape“A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time” – The New Yorker“A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Machines in the Head

    Selected Stories

    de Anna Kavan ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Guilty

    The Lost Classic Novel

    de Anna Kavan ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • I Am Lazarus

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Series series Peter Owen Modern Classic
    Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and WoolfThe tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction bore fruit in the Julia and the Bazooka collection of stories; while this companion volume recalls her experience of the asylum—powerful, haunting works which can ... Leer más

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  • Sleep Has His House

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Series series Peter Owen Modern Classic
    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, ... Leer más

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  • A Charmed Circle

    de Anna Kavan ...
    The story of a family marooned in a country house near an ugly, expanding manufacturing town of the 1920s, while yearning for life in the capital. Anna Kavan masterfully contrasts the English countryside with the brittle London life of the era. ... Leer más

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  • Machines in the Head

    Selected Short Writing

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Described by Brian Aldiss as "De Quincey's heir and Kafka's sister," junkie, depressive, radical, enigma, cult figure, genre-bending experimental writer and artist—few women writers have gathered the same air of mystique, so often the preserve of male counter-culture figures, as Helen Woods, more commonly known by her adopted pen name and persona: Anna Kavan. This anthology of Anna Kavan's short ... Leer más

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  • The Parson

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Series series Peter Owen Modern Classic
    The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan's lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan's last and most enduring fiction (such as Ice). It was published finally, to wide acclaim, by Peter Owen in 1995. The Parson of the title is not a cleric, but an upright ... Leer más

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  • Let Me Alone

    de Anna Kavan ...
    An early work from Anna Kavan strongly evoking life in England and its colonies from the early years of the century through the period following the First World War. More straightforward than her more famous novels, Let Me Alone is nevertheless fascinating for its hint of the personal stresses that was to inform much of her uncompromising storylines. ... Leer más

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  • Asylstück und andere Geschichten

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Traducido por Helma Schleif ...
    Gleißende Gefühle inmitten von Trug und Entfremdung, taghelle Gedanken angesichts des verordneten Wahns, luzide Fluchtträume aus dunklen Klinikwelten: Die vor dem Hintergrund eigener Psychatrieerfahrungen verfassten Geschichten Anna Kavans lesen sich wie Kriegsreportagen aus dem Innenleben der modernen Seele.Kavans hohe Imaginationskunst steht neben der eines Franz Kafka oder Maurice Blanchot, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Wer bist du?

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Traducido por Helma Schleif ...
    Series series Literatur
    Anna Kavans autobiographischer Roman erzählt von einer im kolonialen Burma in einer Ehe gefangenen Frau, deren Mann, ein britischer Offizier und Trinker, zum Zeitvertreib Ratten mit seinem Tennisschläger tötet. Es sind die klagenden Wer bist du? Wer bist du?-Rufe der Vögel in den Tamarindenbäumen, die das durchdringend-monotone Thema von Isolation und innerem Exil vorgeben, der Suche nach ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Eis

    de Anna Kavan ...
    Traducido por Werner Schmitz, Silvia Morawetz ...
    »In meinem eigenen Land konnte mir nichts zustoßen, und dennoch wuchs meine Unruhe, je weiter ich fuhr. Die Wirklichkeit war für mich immer eine unbekannte Größe gewesen«, konstatiert der männliche Erzähler in Anna Kavans Eis zu Beginn seines taumelnden Berichts, während er einer ihm gläsern erscheinenden Frau hinterherjagt und sie in die unendliche Wüste einer postapokalyptischen Eislandschaft ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD