Let me alone
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| Author | Anna Kavan |
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Let me alone est un texte épais dont l’indice de diversité lexicale pointe à 10.47728. Il comporte 513532 caractères et 105852 mots dont 10103 différents.
Let me alone introduit un nombre significatif de protagonistes évoluant dans une fiction aux contours géographiques identifiables.
Let me alone, publiée pour la première fois en 1930, est une œuvre signée Helen Ferguson. Elle a été éditée à 4 reprises, la dernière édition datant de 1993.
Anna Kavan's reputation is escalating internationally, and translations of her books are appearing in many languages. This early novel is therefore of especial interest, as an account of personal stresses which she was later to use and develop in more subjective and experimental ways. Indeed, it was the name of the central character of Let Me Alone that the author chose when she changed her name as a writer (and her personal identity) from Helen Ferguson to Anna Kavan. Anna's mother dies in childbirth and she is brought up by her father and a governess, in a remote Pyrenean village. When she is thirteen, her father shoots himself. She is adopted by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt, who relegates her to a boarding school. There she first becomes attached to the headmistress, Rachel, who takes a possessive interest in the unusual and attractive girl, and then to a fellow-pupil, Sidney Reeve. This girl prises Anna away from Rachel, but is finally supplanted in Anna's affections by another girl, Catherine. Leaving school, Anna is made to feel unwanted by her aunt, who forces her into a loveless marriage. She comes to detest her husband and his bourgeois family, but cannot break away and accompanies him to Burma. There, in an exotic setting described with Lawrentian intensity, the story reaches its climax. Sharp characterization combines with fine descriptive writing, especially of the Burmese countryside. In addition to is literary interest, the book evokes life in England and is colonies from the early years of the century through the period following the First World War. (From the book jacket, british reprint published in 1974).
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Characters
_:anna foaf:name "Anna-Marie Forrester" .
_:james foaf:name "James Forrester" .
_:lise foaf:name "Lise" .
_:nurse foaf:name "Miss Wilson" .
_:lauretta foaf:name "Lauretta" .
_:heyward foaf:name "Heyward Bland" .
_:rachel foaf:name "Rachel Fielding" .
_:sidney foaf:name "Sidney" .
_:catherine foaf:name "Catherine Howard" .
_:matthew foaf:name "Matthew Kavan" .
_:annak foaf:name "Anna Kavan" .
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- Port Said
- said Anna
- good deal
- get away
- James Forrester
- would never
- could see
- Blue Hills
- Heyward Bland
- Miss Wilson
- River House
- one another
- Rachel Fielding
- young man
- blue eyes
- far away
- Anna felt
- long time
- hazel eyes
- grey eyes
stats#has character
- Sidney Reeve
- Matthew Kavan
- Anna Kavan
- Lauretta Bland
- James Forrester
- Heyward Bland
- Rachel Fielding
- Lise Forrester
- Miss Wilson
- Catherine Howard
stats#has character count
- 513532
stats#has diversity indice
- 10.47728
stats#has unique word count
- 10103
stats#has word count
- 105852
coverage
- Oxford
- Pyrenees
- London
- Rangoon
- Port Said
- Blue Hills
- 1920-1930
- River House
creator
- http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL200810A
description
- Anna Kavan's reputation is escalating internationally, and translations of her books are appearing in many languages. This early novel is therefore of especial interest, as an account of personal stresses which she was later to use and develop in more subjective and experimental ways. Indeed, it was the name of the central character of Let Me Alone that the author chose when she changed her name as a writer (and her personal identity) from Helen Ferguson to Anna Kavan. Anna's mother dies in childbirth and she is brought up by her father and a governess, in a remote Pyrenean village. When she is thirteen, her father shoots himself. She is adopted by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt, who relegates her to a boarding school. There she first becomes attached to the headmistress, Rachel, who takes a possessive interest in the unusual and attractive girl, and then to a fellow-pupil, Sidney Reeve. This girl prises Anna away from Rachel, but is finally supplanted in Anna's affections by another girl, Catherine. Leaving school, Anna is made to feel unwanted by her aunt, who forces her into a loveless marriage. She comes to detest her husband and his bourgeois family, but cannot break away and accompanies him to Burma. There, in an exotic setting described with Lawrentian intensity, the story reaches its climax. Sharp characterization combines with fine descriptive writing, especially of the Burmese countryside. In addition to is literary interest, the book evokes life in England and is colonies from the early years of the century through the period following the First World War. (From the book jacket, british reprint published in 1974).
subject
- autobiographical
- colonialism
- bildungsroman
- First World War
- female emancipation
title
- Let me alone
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- http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work
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