- Mentally ill women, Psychological fiction, Psychiatric hospital patients, Autobiographical fiction
Since her death in 1968, there has been a strong revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. Sleep Has His House, combining autobiography with surrealist experimentation, deserves to rank with the author's best works.
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Grave, character-led, contemplative and prestige.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Anna Kavan
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 190
- Publisher
- Picador, Double Day, Cassell
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780935576016
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Anna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter. Originally publishing under her first married name, Helen Ferguson, she adopted the name Anna Kavan in 1939, not only as a nom de plume but as her legal identity. - Wikipedia
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