Sleep Has His House by Kavan, Anna

Sleep Has His House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780720611298)

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Sleep Has His House by Kavan, Anna

Sleep Has His House

$15.95
Sleep Has His House by Kavan, Anna

Sleep Has His House

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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A classic later novel by Anna Kavan. A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, this daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation chronicles the subject's gradual withdrawal from the daylight world of received reality. Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence, and youth are described in what is defined as "nighttime language"--a heightened, decorative prose that frees these events from their gloomy associations. The novel suggests we have all spoken this dialect in childhood and in our dreams, but these thoughts can only be sharpened or decoded by contemplation in the dark. Revealing that side of life which is never seen by the waking eye but which dreams and drugs can suddenly emphasize, this startling discovery illustrates how these nighttime illuminations reveal the narrator's joy for the living world.

Author: Anna Kavan
ISBN-10: 0720611296
ISBN-13: 9780720611298
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2002
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.22h x 6.40w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2003 pg. 134
By Anna Kavan
By Anna Kavan
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Anna Kavan was one of the greatest unsung enigmas in 20th-century British literature. Born as Helen Ferguson, who had a fraught childhood and two failed marriages led her to change her name to that of one of her characters. Despite struggling with mental illness and heroin addiction for most of her life, she was still able to write fiction that was as powerful and memorable as any English female writer of the last 150 years.

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