On Anna Kavan
| Title | On Anna Kavan |
|---|---|
| Author | Jon Fortgang |
| Abstract | Anna Kavan, born Helen Ferguson in 1901 was a very English - and at the same time utterly alien - novelist whose own life took on the quality of an existential mystery. Praised by JG Ballard and Doris Lessing, drawing on Kafka and anticipating slipstream long before it became a genre in British writing, her novels described eerie states of dislocation; a lifelong heroin user, her prose has a needle-sharp precision but her subject matter was never drugs. |
| Item Type | blogPost |
| Website Type | weebly |
| Source | Jon Fortgang, writer and editor |
| URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
| Date | 09/12/2011 |
| Language | English |
| Tags | |
| Accessed | 2012-10-18 16:30:54 |
On Anna Kavan
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- 09/12/2011
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- slipstream
- Lessing likes
- web folklore
- bio Reed
- puzzling narrative
- Ballard likes
- enough heroin
- drug addict
- self-portrait
- kavan land
- mental instability
title
- On Anna Kavan
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- Anna Kavan, born Helen Ferguson in 1901 was a very English - and at the same time utterly alien - novelist whose own life took on the quality of an existential mystery. Praised by JG Ballard and Doris Lessing, drawing on Kafka and anticipating slipstream long before it became a genre in British writing, her novels described eerie states of dislocation; a lifelong heroin user, her prose has a needle-sharp precision but her subject matter was never drugs.
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