« anna kavan returned to war time britain and spent the rest of her troubled life there. she continued to publish books. i remember seeing a book by her in the 1970s and thinking she was eastern european. she's that strain of english writing which is eurocentric, 'surrealiste' is the term she used. i have now finished the book and it's lodged in my mind as something rare and wonderful - the sound of a voice. »
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I love this photo of AK, The sleepwalker in the city...
blogPost, 16/06/2009Anna Kavan returned to war time Britain and spent the rest of her troubled life there. She continued to publish books. I remember seeing a book by her in the 1970s and thinking she was Eastern European. She's that strain of English writing which is Eurocentric, 'surrealiste' is the term she used. I have now finished the book and it's lodged in my mind as something rare and wonderful - the sound of a voice.