Anna Kavan

Title Anna Kavan
Author Peter Owen Publishers
Abstract ‘I was about to become the world’s best kept secret; one that would never be told. What a thrilling enigma for posterity I should be.’ Thus does one of Anna Kavan’s characters describe herself in an unpublished short story, and we know that, as in much of Kavan’s writing, she was describing herself. An enigma the author remains, but her talent was none the less remarkable, and her works have been compared to that of Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka and acclaimed by writers from Anaïs Nin to J.B. Ballard.
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Source Peter Owen Publishers
URL http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/
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Language English
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Anna Kavan

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mental instability
like Kafka
like Woolf
Ballard likes
Lessing likes
Nin likes
drug addict
sensational life

title

Anna Kavan

abstract

‘I was about to become the world’s best kept secret; one that would never be told. What a thrilling enigma for posterity I should be.’ Thus does one of Anna Kavan’s characters describe herself in an unpublished short story, and we know that, as in much of Kavan’s writing, she was describing herself. An enigma the author remains, but her talent was none the less remarkable, and her works have been compared to that of Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka and acclaimed by writers from Anaïs Nin to J.B. Ballard.

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