Guilty - Couverture souple

Kavan, Anna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 072061287X ISBN 13 : 9780720612875

Editeur : Peter Owen, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Kavan Anna

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'A new novel from a major writer 40 years after her death is a marvellous gift from beyond the grave. And freshness isn t the half of it it s magnetic and very disturbing. How it remained unpublished for so long is yet another mystery. Guilty's long, lean sentences, and something about the authorial detachment, also put me in mind of Kavan s last novel, Ice, published in 1967. Guilty is as tight as a drum from the word go. The sinister atmosphere is cine noir and the title reminds us that Kavan wrote in the era of Hitchcock. This is a very modern work. It still speaks of likely forms of devastation. A week after finishing it, I m still haunted. Kavan's art is breathtaking why is there no South Bank Show on this genius drug-fiend?' Duncan Fallowell, Financial Times 14th July 2007 --Financial Times

'Thrillingly unclassifiable' - The Guardian 30th June 2007 --The Guardian

Kavan's dreamscapes recall the hidden gardens of T.S. Eliot s Four Quartets . . . her writing, so wild and emotionally fraught, represents a rare form of inner resilience. Times Literary Supplement --Times Literary Supplement

Biographie de l'auteur :

Anna Kavan (born 1901) was first published in 1929 under her married name of Helen Ferguson. After the collapse of her second marriage she had a nervous breakdown and emerged from her treatment as Anna Kavan named after a character in one of her novels. Author of a substantial body of highly praised and original fiction, she was addicted to heroin for many years before her death.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Peter Owen
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 072061287X
• ISBN 13: 9780720612875
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192