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Synopsis
Book by Kavan Anna
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Présentation de l'éditeur
From the author of Ice, Sleep Has His House, Anna Kavan's largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, is one of her most acclaimed books.
A daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation, Sleep Has His House charts chronologically the stages of the subject's gradual withdrawal from all interest in and contact with the daylight world of received reality. Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence and youth are described in what Kavan terms 'night-time 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.
Présentation de l'éditeur
A classic later novel by Anna Kavan
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