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Анна Каван - автор 21 книги. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Лед, Sleep Has His House, Who Are You?. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
«Лёд» (1967) – главный роман британской писательницы Анны Каван (1901–1968), которую при жизни сравнивали с Вирджинией Вульф и называли сестрой Кафки. Критики считают Каван основоположницей жанра slipstream («завихрение») – литературы фантазийного воображения, где причинно-следственные связи держатся на волоске, а обостренные до предела чувства несравнимо важнее логики. В ее романах вполне реалист...
A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, Sleep Has His House startled with its strangeness in 1948. Today it is one of Anna Kavan’s most acclaimed books. A daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation, Sleep Has His House charts chronologically the stages of the subject’s gradual withdrawal from all interest in and contact with the daylight world of received real...
Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer. Like Kafka, she writes of prisons with no bars, of paranoiac nightmares, of living in a halfway world between hell and reality. First published sixty years ago (Doubleday did it in the U.S. in 1946), Asylum Piece charts the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration at a Swiss clinic. This collection of interlinked ...
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 ed...
