Outside the asylum of her mind
| Title | Outside the asylum of her mind |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Abstract | Since we often hear complaints about the puerile state of current publishing, it is as well to remind oneself that exceptional work has often had a hard time of it in Britain. Henry James struggled to sell his greatest novels. James Joyce was published in Paris. Ronald Firbank paid for his own publication. D H Lawrence was reviled. But because literature is about extending reality, not repeating it, there is some law of creativity which guarantees that the exceptional is what survives. So perhaps it is no wonder that the esoteric and beautiful writing of Anna Kavan refuses to go away - but it has been a near thing. |
| Item Type | newspaperArticle |
| Website Type | |
| Source | The Telegraph |
| URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
| Date | 25/06/2006 |
| Language | English |
| Tags | |
| Accessed | 2013-03-01 12:22:40 |
Outside the asylum of her mind
date
- 25/06/2006
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- Duncan Fallowell (1948) is a novelist, travel writer and critic.
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- sensational life
- like Kafka
- bio Reed
- Let Me Alone
- self-portrait
- bio Callard
- papers Bluth
- WW II
- like Woolf
- Ice
- Asylum Piece
- drug addict
title
- Outside the asylum of her mind
abstract
- Since we often hear complaints about the puerile state of current publishing, it is as well to remind oneself that exceptional work has often had a hard time of it in Britain. Henry James struggled to sell his greatest novels. James Joyce was published in Paris. Ronald Firbank paid for his own publication. D H Lawrence was reviled. But because literature is about extending reality, not repeating it, there is some law of creativity which guarantees that the exceptional is what survives. So perhaps it is no wonder that the esoteric and beautiful writing of Anna Kavan refuses to go away - but it has been a near thing.
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- 2013-03-01 12:22:40
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