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A Charmed Circle / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Peter Owen Publishers : Legimi, 2014.

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Kavan Anna.

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Marooned in a country house in an ugly manufacturing town is an old vicarage of which expensive improvements have been undertaken. The house sits in the middle of the town where traffic buzz is accentuated by occasional rumbling of passing trams. So much that it is separated by high walls and trees and is encroached by the hustle-and-bustle, it is a lonely ark itself-or at least the occupants intend it to be. Steered by the father's morbidly morose, withdrawn and sinister nature, the Deanes immerse in a safe, profound secrecy of those in whom no one is interested. Life is meticulously edited to ensure minimal interruption of routine and to discourage any social intrusion of visitors. Fettered by some mental disability and limitation are the young Deanes who rebel and struggle to leave. Their attempts have always been futile that they fear the long, dull ache to follow when they have no choice but to return home. Amidst the staidness of the house is an unpleasant atmosphere that always seems to arise so easily and suddenly. That they rarely converge together constitutes this perpetual sense of warfare because hostilities are liable to burst out between family members. The family reaches a tacit understanding that Beryl, who sets her heart on leaving the house, is held responsible for this hostility that reigns the house. Resolved to break free from all the constraints, she never hesitates to cut to the core the misery of being deprived of freedom. Her ability to assert individuality in defiance of Mrs Deane's disposition, combined with this imponderable vitality, constantly remind her sister Olive of her being a failure. That her life has been a waster plunges her into an interminable distress of which she blames on Beryl, who in return despises her for being mentally dishonest, salving conscience by trying to talk her mother round a more lenient attitude toward Beryl. The grudge that embitters both of them repulses any overture of reconciliation. A young sculptor from London lets in a glimpse of light to Beryl's escape. What amazes her more than the job at an exotic hat shop is their increased intimacy made possible by premeditated meals and meetings. That he feels more than an obligatory sense of responsibility for her-the conscious longing, the dread of her absence-touches on his nerve, for the inimical nature of the Deanes has imparted in him a resolution to keep clear of them. In unconscious defense he begins to frame argument against being with her, for he feels his independence being invaded. A Charmed Circle is so well-written and penetrating, with a cold snap of a sterile voice that accentuates the hostile mood. The long narrative prose that pierces into the mind reinforces an atmosphere that under a superficial geniality runs a sinister current of tension and repression. It delves on the motives, the unspoken words that which justify the actions. Kavan meticulously metes out words that capture the passing thoughts that are often overlooked but are key to the actions. Despite the overall air of revolt and struggle for self-expression, the novel asserts a sense of hope of overcoming mental capitulation.

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Asylum Piece / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Peter Owen Publishers : Legimi, 2014.

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Kavan Anna.

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First published sixty years ago, Asylum Piece today ranks as one of the most extraordinary and terrifying evocations of human madness ever written. This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration at a Swiss clinic. The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name evokes The Trial by Franz Kafka, the writer with whom Kavan is most often compared, though Kavan's deeply personal, restrained and almost foreignaccented style has no true model. The same characters who recur throughout — the protagonist's unhelpful 'advisor', the friend/lover who abandons her at the clinic, and an assortment of deluded companions — are sketched without a trace of the rage, selfpity or sentiment that have marked more recent prozac memoirs.

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Hielo / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Trotalibros Editorial : Legimi, 2021.

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Kavan Anna.

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Una nueva era glaciar se extiende por el mundo congelándolo todo a su paso y provocando guerras y migraciones masivas donde aún no ha sumido la vida en su silencio helado. Avanzando a contracorriente de la muchedumbre que huye desesperadamente de la muerte, un hombre busca a la mujer que ama, una joven pálida de cabello plateado, para ponerla a salvo. Pero ella, delicada, asustadiza y desconfiada, siempre se escabulle de él, convirtiendo la búsqueda en persecución. Publicada en 1967, Hielo, la misteriosa e inclasificable obra maestra de Anna Kavan, crea un mundo apocalíptico, oscuro, angustioso y alegórico. Más allá de todas las interpretaciones psicológicas, medioambientales y feministas que se le han atribuido, esta novela es un viaje al mundo devastado y al asedio constante de la depresión y la adicción a la heroína que la misma autora sufría cuando la escribió.

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I Am Lazarus / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Peter Owen Publishers : Legimi, 2013.

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Kavan Anna.

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First published in 1945, the stories collected under the title I Am Lazarus are a brilliant summation of the war experiences of Anna Kavan in Blitz-era London, working among invalided soldiers at a 'military neurosis centre' in Mill Hill. Kavan's view of the capital and some of its war victims in this momentous era are typically original and oblique: 'Lazarus' is a patient revived from catatonia who somehow remains institutionalized; the Blitz spirit is coolly stripped of cheeriness and never-say-die in 'Glorious Boys and 'Our City'; there is a Hithcockian horror story in 'The Gannets', while in 'Who Has Desired The Sea' and 'The Blackout' the 'shell-shocked' have ultimately only seen war exacerbate old, long-suppressed psychological wounds. Chilling but compassionate classics, the I Am Lazarus collection, republished now after many years, are essential documents of the time - and of Anna Kavan.

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Let Me Alone / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Peter Owen Publishers : Legimi, 2014.

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Kavan Anna.

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The mother of 'Anna' in this novel dies in childbirth and she brought up by her father and a governess, in a remote Pyrenean village. When she is thirteen, her father shoots himself and she Is adopted by a rich, beautiful and ruthless aunt who stows her in a boarding school. She forms friendships at the school but her freedom is abruptly curtailed when the aunt forces her into a loveless marriage: she comes to detest her husband and bourgeois family but cannot break away and finds herself marooned with him in Burma, where the story climaxes.

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Who Are You? / Anna Kavan. - [miejsce nieznane] : Peter Owen Publishers : Legimi, 2014.

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Kavan Anna.

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