Kavan Anna Machines in the Head: Selected Stories of Anna Kavan 9781681374147

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Автор: Kavan Anna
Название: Machines in the Head: Selected Stories of Anna Kavan
ISBN: 9781681374147
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1681374145
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.20 кг.
Дата издания: 18.02.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 201 x 130 x 13
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the authors own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories.

Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This anthology of Kavans stories draws together a selection of her best writing from across her long career. Stories from across her collections show the range of her style: oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and asylum 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 addiction from Julia and the Bazooka. Her late sci-fi stories will appeal to fans of her last novel, Ice. Five Days to Countdown, first published in Encounter (1968) and later collected in My Soul in China, is preoccupied with Cold War concerns and the sartorial aesthetics of the 1960s, and, published here for the first time, Starting a Career is a futuristic spy thriller, whose protagonist sets out to become the worlds greatest enigma.

Kavan was determined to experiment throughout her writing career, and this collection is moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, but always distinctive and often unique. And even though better known as a writer than an artist, Kavan painted throughout her life; several of her distinctive paintings are included in this collection to illustrate her stories.

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