Kavan, Anna Machines in the head 9780720620542

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Автор: Kavan, Anna
Название: Machines in the head
ISBN: 9780720620542
Издательство: Peter owen publishers
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Антологии (прозаические)

Научно-фантастическая художественная литература

ISBN-10: 0720620546
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.47 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 147 x 223 x 27
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The selected short writing of anna kavan
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Described by Brian Aldiss as De Quinceys heir and Kafkas sister, junkie, depressive, radical, enigma, cult figure, genre-bending experimental writer and artist--few women writers have gathered the same air of mystique, so often the preserve of male counter-culture figures, as Helen Woods, more commonly known by her adopted pen name and persona: Anna Kavan. This anthology of Anna Kavans short fiction and journalism marks the 50 years since her death in 1968, offering an accessible introduction to readers new to her work and a timely survey of her diverse literary talents for her fans. From moving portraits of clinical depression to phantasmagoric visions of science-fiction wonder, the selection is taken from across Kavans oeuvre, representing the best of her writing and showing the range of her style. Readers will encounter oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and incarceration from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from I Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958) and stories of heroin addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Her science-fiction stories will appeal to fans of her final novel Ice, while the previously unpublished Starting a Career is a futuristic spy-thriller. Writing for the magazine Horizon between 1943 and 1946, Kavan revealed her personal and political views. She was pacifist, nihilist, atheist and vehemently anti-fascist; she implicitly believed in peoples mutual responsibility for one another and was preoccupied with those who were dispossessed, marginalized or alone. Her book reviews reveal something of her literary tastes and influences as well as being a platform for her beliefs regarding psychology, ethics and the importance of art and literature in turbulent times. Machines in the Head shows the extraordinary range of Kavans work, which is, by turns, moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling but always distinctive and unique.

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