I am Lazarus
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Author | Anna Kavan |
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I am Lazarus est un texte épais dont l’indice de diversité lexicale pointe à 7.768202. Il comporte 289483 caractères et 58681 mots dont 7554 différents.
I am Lazarus introduit un nombre restreint de protagonistes évoluant dans un environnement sans nom.
I am Lazarus, publiée pour la première fois en 1945, est une œuvre signée Anna Kavan. Elle a été éditée à 3 reprises, la dernière édition datant de 2013.
First published in 1945, the stories collected under the title I Am Lazarus are a brilliant summation of the war experiences of Anna Kavan in Blitz-era London, working among invalided soldiers at a ‘military neurosis centre’ in Mill Hill. Kavan’s view of the capital and some of its war victims in this momentous era are typically original and oblique: ‘Lazarus’ is a patient revived from catatonia who somehow remains institutionalized; the Blitz spirit is coolly stripped of cheeriness and never-say-die in ‘Glorious Boys and ‘Our City’; there is a Hithcockian horror story in ‘The Gannets’, while in ‘Who Has Desired The Sea’ and ‘The Blackout’ the ‘shell-shocked’ have ultimately only seen war exacerbate old, long-suppressed psychological wounds. Chilling but compassionate classics, the I Am Lazarus collection, republished now after many years, are essential documents of the time – and of Anna Kavan. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1945).
Bigrams
Dispersion
Places
Characters
stats#bigram
- young man
- two doctors
- one another
- tube station
- quite different
- anything else
- English doctor
- barbed wire
- could see
- boy said
- Thomas Bow
- blue carpet
- old man
- cherry tree
- Ward Six
- chief clerk
- fair hair
- long time
- gym mistress
- good deal
stats#has character
- doctor
- Thomas Bow
- patient
stats#has character count
- 289483
stats#has diversity indice
- 7.768202
stats#has unique word count
- 7554
stats#has word count
- 58681
coverage
- London
- Mill Hill Hospital
- 1940-1950
creator
- http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL200810A
date
- 1945
description
- First published in 1945, the stories collected under the title I Am Lazarus are a brilliant summation of the war experiences of Anna Kavan in Blitz-era London, working among invalided soldiers at a ‘military neurosis centre’ in Mill Hill. Kavan’s view of the capital and some of its war victims in this momentous era are typically original and oblique: ‘Lazarus’ is a patient revived from catatonia who somehow remains institutionalized; the Blitz spirit is coolly stripped of cheeriness and never-say-die in ‘Glorious Boys and ‘Our City’; there is a Hithcockian horror story in ‘The Gannets’, while in ‘Who Has Desired The Sea’ and ‘The Blackout’ the ‘shell-shocked’ have ultimately only seen war exacerbate old, long-suppressed psychological wounds. Chilling but compassionate classics, the I Am Lazarus collection, republished now after many years, are essential documents of the time – and of Anna Kavan. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1945).
subject
- psychological fiction
- psychiatric hospital patient
- Nec50dd59d75a4bfb80bcbffab732b378
- war writers
- Second World War
title
- I am Lazarus
22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
- http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work
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