Book Review: Ice, Anna Kavan (1967)
Title | Book Review: Ice, Anna Kavan (1967) |
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Abstract | Anna Kavan’s masterful post-apocalyptical novel Ice (1967) parallels the death throws of a relationship with the disintegration of the world. As the unnamed narrator (N) and the girl (G) traverse an indistinct, interchangeable, world transformed by glacial encroachment, only the same movements are possible: flight, pursuit, flight, pursuit… Repetition reinforces the profoundly unnerving feel of both physical and mental imprisonment: as movements are predicted, trauma is repeated. |
Item Type | blogPost |
Website Type | wp |
Source | Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations |
URL | http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/ |
Date | 01/02/2015 |
Language | English |
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Accessed | 2015-02-24 14:13:07 |
Book Review: Ice, Anna Kavan (1967)
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- like Ballard
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- Anna Kavan’s masterful post-apocalyptical novel Ice (1967) parallels the death throws of a relationship with the disintegration of the world. As the unnamed narrator (N) and the girl (G) traverse an indistinct, interchangeable, world transformed by glacial encroachment, only the same movements are possible: flight, pursuit, flight, pursuit… Repetition reinforces the profoundly unnerving feel of both physical and mental imprisonment: as movements are predicted, trauma is repeated.
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