My soul in China
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Author | Anna Kavan |
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My soul in China est un texte épais dont l’indice de diversité lexicale pointe à 7.122444. Il comporte 293831 caractères et 60961 mots dont 8559 différents.
My soul in China introduit un nombre significatif de protagonistes évoluant dans une fiction aux contours géographiques identifiables.
My soul in China, publiée pour la première fois en 1975, est une œuvre posthume. Elle a été éditée à 5 reprises, la dernière édition datant de 2004.
Since her death in 1968 there has been a strong international revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. The novella and short stories in this collection have been selected and edited by Rhys Davies from MSS found after her death. They represent both her early and later writing. The novella My Soul in China belongs to the former category. Written after the failure of a second marriage, it contains autobiographical elements, including the experiences of mental breakdown and drug addiction. Its central character, a desperately unhappy woman, find temporary refuge, after the breakdown of her marriage, with an itinerant Australian. Their brief idyllic time together, spent at a lonely coastal retreat, is poignantly described. But when Kay's lover prepares to return to his family, she has once again to face the nightmare fear of mental isolation and loss of personal identity. The nine short stories show the author experimenting with new ideas and reflect, sometimes wryly, some of the contemporary problems -violence in society, pollution - that concerned her. All, however, reveal the weird atmosphere of mingled fantasy and reality which distinguished Anna Kavan's work. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1975).
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Characters
stats#bigram
- six months
- somebody else
- Narciso Valesco
- brown face
- get rid
- Yellow Submarine
- stranger sprang
- New York
- young man
- three months
- long ago
- Mulberry juice
- Lazy Dog
- strange woman
- caught sight
- kept repeating
- Young Trackers
- Tiny Thing
- Revolution Avenue
- mocking bird
stats#has character
- Martin
- Max
- Kay
- the Australian
- Irving
- John
- doctors
- patient
- Oblomov
stats#has character count
- 293831
stats#has diversity indice
- 7.122444
stats#has unique word count
- 8559
stats#has word count
- 60961
coverage
- 20th century
- China
- dining-room
- mountain
- room
- hotel Les Mimosas
- house
- verandah
- Wimpole street
- London
- Perpignan
- California
- New York
- clinic
creator
- http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL200810A
description
- Since her death in 1968 there has been a strong international revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. The novella and short stories in this collection have been selected and edited by Rhys Davies from MSS found after her death. They represent both her early and later writing. The novella My Soul in China belongs to the former category. Written after the failure of a second marriage, it contains autobiographical elements, including the experiences of mental breakdown and drug addiction. Its central character, a desperately unhappy woman, find temporary refuge, after the breakdown of her marriage, with an itinerant Australian. Their brief idyllic time together, spent at a lonely coastal retreat, is poignantly described. But when Kay's lover prepares to return to his family, she has once again to face the nightmare fear of mental isolation and loss of personal identity. The nine short stories show the author experimenting with new ideas and reflect, sometimes wryly, some of the contemporary problems -violence in society, pollution - that concerned her. All, however, reveal the weird atmosphere of mingled fantasy and reality which distinguished Anna Kavan's work. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1975).
subject
- Autobiographical fiction
- Psychological fiction
- surrealism fiction
title
- My soul in China
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- http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work
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