Paperback / softback
Description
This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration in a Swiss clinic.
The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name, evokes The Trial by Kafka, a writer with whom Kavan is often compared, although her deeply personal, restrained, and almost foreign -accented style has no true model.
The same characters who recur throughout-the protagonist's unhelpful "adviser," the friend and lover who abandons her at the clinic, and an assortment of deluded companions-are sketched without a trace of the rage, self-pity, or sentiment that have marked more recent accounts of mental instability.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:Peter Owen Publishers
- Publication Date:06/09/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780720611236
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:Peter Owen Publishers
- Publication Date:06/09/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780720611236
