Asylum Piece and Other Stories

Asylum Piece and Other Stories
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Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105036775588
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Book Synopsis Asylum Piece and Other Stories by : Anna Kavan

Download or read book Asylum Piece and Other Stories written by Anna Kavan and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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