Asylum Piece and Other Stories - Peter Owen Modern Classics
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780720611236 |
Publisher: | Peter Owen Publishers |
Imprint: | Peter Owen Publishers |
Pub date: | 01 Sep 2001 |
Edition: | New Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.912 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 212 |
Weight: | 194g |
Height: | 186mm |
Width: | 125mm |
Spine width: | 17mm |