Anna Kavan
Title | Anna Kavan |
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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 Thus does one of Anna Kavan’s characters describe herself in an unpublished short story, and we know that, as in much of Kavan’s writing, she was describing herself.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. |
Item Type | webpage |
Website Type | |
Source | Peter Owen Publishers |
URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
Date | |
Language | English |
Tags | |
Accessed | 2014-10-30 12:46:12 |
Anna Kavan
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subject
- 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 Thus does one of Anna Kavan’s characters describe herself in an unpublished short story, and we know that, as in much of Kavan’s writing, she was describing herself.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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- 2014-10-30 12:46:12
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