Ice and Guilty by Anna Kavan
Title | Ice and Guilty by Anna Kavan |
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Author | |
Abstract | About a year ago, I attended the guest of honor talk at ICon, the Israeli science fiction and fantasy convention. The speaker was Neil Gaiman, and his topic was dreams. With typical low-key irreverence, Mr. Gaiman sidestepped his assigned subject. Nothing, he claimed, is quite so boring as actual dreams, in which the mind's processing centers, cut off from the senses and from higher reasoning, continue to churn and light up, producing certainties and causal leaps ("and suddenly it wasn't my high school gym teacher; it was my mother" is my best recollection of Mr. Gaiman's way of describing this effect) that have no relation to logic, narrative, or even metaphor and symbolism. Anna Kavan's Ice unfolds with a similar dream-like logic. |
Item Type | webpage |
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Source | Strange Horizons Reviews |
URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
Date | 24/09/2007 |
Language | English |
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Accessed | 2014-10-30 11:26:27 |
Ice and Guilty by Anna Kavan
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- WW II
- Carla
- Guilty
- bio Sturm
- the warden
- the girl
- Ice
- Mark
- SF writer
- puzzling narrative
- like Kafka
title
- Ice and Guilty by Anna Kavan
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- About a year ago, I attended the guest of honor talk at ICon, the Israeli science fiction and fantasy convention. The speaker was Neil Gaiman, and his topic was dreams. With typical low-key irreverence, Mr. Gaiman sidestepped his assigned subject. Nothing, he claimed, is quite so boring as actual dreams, in which the mind's processing centers, cut off from the senses and from higher reasoning, continue to churn and light up, producing certainties and causal leaps ("and suddenly it wasn't my high school gym teacher; it was my mother" is my best recollection of Mr. Gaiman's way of describing this effect) that have no relation to logic, narrative, or even metaphor and symbolism. Anna Kavan's Ice unfolds with a similar dream-like logic.
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