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Helen Woods Ferguson Edmonds, who wrote her best-known work under the pseudonym Anna Kavan, is one of the most enigmatic of modern British writers. Her haunted life is reflected in her work, which is ...
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Critical Essay by John Spurling
[In her foreword to Sleep Has His House, Kavan wrote:]
If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative po...
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Critical Essay by Adrianne Marcus
Anna Kavan is becoming known in this country at long last. Her death in 1968 deprived us of further stories, but the posthumous publication of her book Julia and the ...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Turner Pochoda
Anna Kavan, like Anaïs Nin with whom she is often compared, is a cult writer. Her work is treasured by people who enjoy its sensitive probing of inner...
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Critical Essay by Duncan Fallowell
On coming to what [Eagle's Nest] is about—plotwise—one has no option but to rely on the narrator himself, a distracted soul who never knows exac...
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Critical Essay by Bettina L. Knapp
The dream encroached upon Anna Kavan's reality with such power as to submerge her ego. Yet, as Anaïs Nin has suggested in her introduction [to Neige su...
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Critical Essay by Max Egremont
Anna Kavan's writing is inextricably tied up with the convolutions of her tragic life. Of course this is, to a greater or lesser extent, true of all writersȂ...
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Anna Kavan
Critical Essay by John Spurling
