Julia and the Bazooka
Title | Julia and the Bazooka |
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Author | |
Abstract | Anna Kavan is the author of Ice, a surreal sci-fi masterpiece about a woman and two barely distinguishable sadistic men, one who has enslaved her, and one who wishes to. The world is slowly turning to ice. She has the incredibly smooth and detached voice of mid-century English fiction, flawlessly written and absolutely clear, like Somerset Maugham or Graham Greene. The subject is always herself. This is what links her early realist work to her later surreal stuff. Anna Kavan (it is a nom de plume, taken from the protagonist of an early novel) was a lifelong heroin addict. She was suicidal. She called her syringe her bazooka. Hence the title of her last collection of short stories, Julia and the Bazooka. |
Item Type | blogPost |
Website Type | |
Source | Last Bender |
URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
Date | 17/09/2009 |
Language | English |
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Accessed | 2015-02-24 16:25:04 |
Julia and the Bazooka
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- 17/09/2009
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- Bellevue sanatorium
- mental instability
- Asylum Piece
- Far East
- drug addict
- bio Reed
- Ice
- SF writer
- like Kafka
- julia and the bazooka
- abusive men
- over again
title
- Julia and the Bazooka
abstract
- Anna Kavan is the author of Ice, a surreal sci-fi masterpiece about a woman and two barely distinguishable sadistic men, one who has enslaved her, and one who wishes to. The world is slowly turning to ice. She has the incredibly smooth and detached voice of mid-century English fiction, flawlessly written and absolutely clear, like Somerset Maugham or Graham Greene. The subject is always herself. This is what links her early realist work to her later surreal stuff. Anna Kavan (it is a nom de plume, taken from the protagonist of an early novel) was a lifelong heroin addict. She was suicidal. She called her syringe her bazooka. Hence the title of her last collection of short stories, Julia and the Bazooka.
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