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Sleep has his house - Anna Kavan
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Title
Sleep has his house
Sleep has his house
Author
Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20021023
20021023
Description
A classic later novel by Anna Kavan.
A largely autobiographical account of an unhappy childhood, this daring synthesis of memoir and surrealist experimentation chronicles the subject's gradual withdrawal from the daylight world of received reality. Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence, and youth are described in whatisdefined as"nighttime 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. Revealing that side of life which is never seen by the waking eye but which dreams and drugs can suddenly emphasize,this startling discoveryillustrateshow these nighttime illuminations revealthe narrator's joy for the living world.
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