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Anna Kavan’s Beautiful Head

blogPost, 06/07/2011

Anna Kavan’s Beautiful Head

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair

blogPost, 02/01/2012

dédicace 2011 - Ice

Tell me a story…

blogPost, 11/02/2012

Anna, the Morisons’ installation at the Hepworth Wakefield, evokes presence in a different way. Based on the life and work of cult novelist Anna Kavan, it grasps for archetypes and universals through coded messages.

AK, Ice

blogPost, 01/09/2012

Ice

A Writer's Ruminations

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quote Asylum

Anna Kavan, Julia and the Bazooka

blogPost, 4/10/2010

The thing about trying to record quotes from Anna Kavan is that everything she writes reads this way — splendid, icy, nightmarish — and so that these are merely a random selection from a vast pool.

A Writer's Ruminations

blogPost, 24/02/2012

Walker Evans - Anna Kavan, 1941

The Anna Kavan Society

blogPost, 27/10/2011

One of the worst things about hell is that nobody is ever allowed to sleep there, although it’s always night, or at the earliest, about six o’clock in the evening. There are beds, of course, but they’re used for other purposes.” —My Soul in China

Sleep Has His House

blogPost, 01/05/2012

“How dark it is. The moon must have stolen away secretly. The stars have thrown their spears down and departed.”

Anna Kavan: Letter to her publisher

blogPost, 10/04/2011

Anna Kavan: Letter to her publisher

Anna Kavan

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The houses of ice and sleep, bright gree, fields, hoofist and dancing brain-fever birds

Kavan

blogPost, 06/09/11

Kavan's Work

Anna Kavan, Eagle's Nest

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1957: “ Everything appeared slightly distorted to me just then. I saw the station as the garishly lit shrine of some cult, dedicated to huge iron monsters, bellowing peremptorily at the timid...

Julia and her bazooka

blogPost, 01/03/2011

bookcover

endvisions

blogPost, 14/01/2012

re: the apocalypse

“My somewhat tortured love affair with modernism...

blogPost, 14/11/2012

“ “My somewhat tortured love affair with modernism began when I was working in a bookshop in London, reading these amazing women writers of that period who I had never heard of previously, obscure...