World Literature Today, March 22nd, 1995
The stories and novels of the British writer Anna Kavan (1902-68), a cult favorite among science-fiction readers, are not well known. The American distribution of D. A. Callard's biography will perhaps bring her brilliant, haunting writing to an academic and general audience. Her bleak, Kafkaesque vision, warmed by compassion without sentimentality, suits today's millennial mood. Her life story, a sad, dogged tale of survival, resembles the lives of so many inner and outer exiles, yet her creative genius shines in nightmare stories, elegant and controlled, like a lily sprung from the mud.
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