6/26/2023 0 Comments Anna kavan books![]() ![]() Her stories feel prescient today they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world, sentiments I can’t help but feel have also been evoked during our self-quarantined present.Ĭollected in Machines In The Head, under an arresting and apocalyptic cover featuring Gertrude Abercrombie’s Reverie (1947), are stories that span thirty years of Kavan’s career and which consequently evidence the transformation of Kavan’s style and writing concerns as they reflected what was both occurring in her personal life (institutionalization, war work, drug abuse), and what was occurring more broadly - politically. Her work is, by some odd logic, contemporary - which is to say, her writing is one that matches the hallucinatory chaos of our present. But Kavan’s writing feels both of the present and uniquely unparalleled. ![]() Anna Kavan is a singular presence in a group that includes the likes of Eve Babitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Ann Quin, writers whose work has been recently reissued to both acclaim and newfound followings. ![]()
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