Sleep Has His House
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Author | Anna Kavan |
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Sleep Has His House est un texte épais dont l’indice de diversité lexicale pointe à 4.979457. Il comporte 251232 caractères et 50417 mots dont 10125 différents.
Sleep Has His House introduit un nombre restreint de protagonistes évoluant dans un environnement sans nom.
Sleep Has His House, publiée pour la première fois en 1947, est une œuvre signée Anna Kavan. Elle a été éditée à 10 reprises, la dernière édition datant de 2003.
Since her death in 1968, there has been a strong revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. Sleep Has His House, combining autobiography with surrealist experimentation, deserves to rank with the author's best works. In her foreword Anna Kavan writes: 'Life is tension or the result of tension; without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the influence of cosmic radiations quite different from those of the day, human affairs are apt to come to a crisis. At night most human beings die and are born. Sleep Has His House describes in the night-time language certain stages in the development of one individual human being. No interpretation is needed of this language we have all spoken in childhood and in our dreams; but for the sake of unity a few words before every section indicate the corresponding events of the day.' (From the book jacket, british reprint published in 1973).
Bigrams
Bigrams
- one another
- Liaison Officer
- old man
- Liaison Officer
- dead spot
- dancing master
- far away
- straw hat
- little girl
- hurrying along
- bottom drawer
- clanging bells
- front door
- escaping steam
- porcupine quills
- colossally underfoot
- bubbling mess
- flattens colossally
- aurora borealis
- verse burgeons
Dispersion
Places
Characters
stats#bigram
- aurora borealis
- Liaison Officer
- thunderous revving
- old man
- far away
- little girl
- front door
- escaping steam
- clanging bells
- hurrying along
- colossally underfoot
- porcupine quills
- straw hat
- dancing master
- dead spot
- flattens colossally
- verse burgeons
- one another
- bottom drawer
- bubbling mess
stats#has character
- mother
- girl
- doctor
stats#has character count
- 251232
stats#has diversity indice
- 4.979457
stats#has unique word count
- 10125
stats#has word count
- 50417
coverage
- 20th century
creator
- http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL200810A
date
- 1973
description
- Since her death in 1968, there has been a strong revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. Sleep Has His House, combining autobiography with surrealist experimentation, deserves to rank with the author's best works. In her foreword Anna Kavan writes: 'Life is tension or the result of tension; without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the influence of cosmic radiations quite different from those of the day, human affairs are apt to come to a crisis. At night most human beings die and are born. Sleep Has His House describes in the night-time language certain stages in the development of one individual human being. No interpretation is needed of this language we have all spoken in childhood and in our dreams; but for the sake of unity a few words before every section indicate the corresponding events of the day.' (From the book jacket, british reprint published in 1973).
subject
- Psychological fiction
- Psychiatric hospital patients
- Mentally ill women
- Autobiographical fiction
- surrealism fiction
title
- Sleep Has His House
22-rdf-syntax-ns#type
- http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#Work
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