Mercury
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Author | Anna Kavan |
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Mercury est un texte épais dont l’indice de diversité lexicale pointe à 7.381083. Il comporte 281469 caractères et 56576 mots dont 7665 différents.
Mercury introduit un nombre restreint de protagonistes évoluant dans un environnement sans nom.
Mercury, publiée pour la première fois en 1994, est une œuvre posthume. Elle a été éditée à 2 reprises, la dernière édition datant de 2006.
This hitherto unpublished novel, an exciting literary discovery, is from Anna Kavan's most creative period. A work of sustained imaginative vision, it contains some of the novelists' best hallucinogenic writing. The beautiful 'glass girl' Luz is pursued from one imaginary country to another by Luke, whose love for her becomes a pathological obsession. Luke is as bewitched, too, by the Indris, singing lemurs whose magical harmonies he encounters in a tropical forest of pellucid charms. The lemurs have no enemies in their jungle world 'where intelligence and affection were cherished, and destruction and cruelty had no place'. Luke has chosen his wandering life of exile to escape his own shortcomings and failure in human relations. And he wants to protect Luz, estranged from her sadistic husband Chas. Luke himself reveals shades of latent sadism and becomes dependent on tablets that induce horror, shame and ecstatic excitement. The narrative is projected like a series of dream sequences, enigma and illusion intertwined in the mound of Kafka. Yet, as in her novel Ice, Anna Kavan has fashioned a coruscating landscape of her own making - apocalyptic, compelling, unforgettable. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1994).
Bigrams
Dispersion
Places
Characters
stats#bigram
- palm leaves
- quite near
- pear tree
- immediately afterwards
- anything else
- wide open
- human beings
- long ago
- first time
- much longer
- mountain slopes
- beech woods
- ever since
- anywhere near
- grey hooded
- cold wind
- tropical island
- taken aback
- open space
- hooded coat
stats#has character
- Chas
- Luz
- Luke
stats#has character count
- 281469
stats#has diversity indice
- 7.381083
stats#has unique word count
- 7665
stats#has word count
- 56576
coverage
- jungle
- mountains
creator
- http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL200810A
date
- 1994
description
- This hitherto unpublished novel, an exciting literary discovery, is from Anna Kavan's most creative period. A work of sustained imaginative vision, it contains some of the novelists' best hallucinogenic writing. The beautiful 'glass girl' Luz is pursued from one imaginary country to another by Luke, whose love for her becomes a pathological obsession. Luke is as bewitched, too, by the Indris, singing lemurs whose magical harmonies he encounters in a tropical forest of pellucid charms. The lemurs have no enemies in their jungle world 'where intelligence and affection were cherished, and destruction and cruelty had no place'. Luke has chosen his wandering life of exile to escape his own shortcomings and failure in human relations. And he wants to protect Luz, estranged from her sadistic husband Chas. Luke himself reveals shades of latent sadism and becomes dependent on tablets that induce horror, shame and ecstatic excitement. The narrative is projected like a series of dream sequences, enigma and illusion intertwined in the mound of Kafka. Yet, as in her novel Ice, Anna Kavan has fashioned a coruscating landscape of her own making - apocalyptic, compelling, unforgettable. (From the book jacket, first british edition published in 1994).
subject
- Abusive Men
- Psychological fiction
- surrealism fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
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title
- Mercury
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- http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work
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