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	CONTEXT: Issue No. 18: Anna Kavan
		The characters in Anna Kavan’s world are travelers of neverending journeys, by train and by ship; they stop in small, indiscriminate towns where rows of faceless houses are as closed-off as their inhabitants; finding strange faces and obstacles everywhere, the landscape one of silent hostility.
		To Kavan, the world had ceased to be rooted in reason, and her final and most famous novel articulates her horror of this transformation.
		Kavan portrayed female characters with a desire to fall, to luxuriate at the bottom: shattered women who harbor the hope that someone will come and save them, but who always, in the end, return to the struggles of solitude.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no18/kavan.html (2884 words)

	Anna Kavan
		Anna Kavan was born Helen Emily Woods on April 10, 1901 in Cannes, France of English parents (Claude Charles Edward Woods and Helen Bright).
		Owing to a painful spinal disease, Kavan was a heroin addict for thirty years -- a fact not made public until after her death, when her friend, the writer Rhys Davies, revealed it in his introduction to Julia and the Bazooka (1970).
		Anna Kavan: Life and Books by Jan Hanford, includes a brief biography, covers and descriptions of each book, and a letter from Kavan to her publisher.
	alangullette.com /lit/kavan (848 words)

	Anna Kavan Biography and Summary
		Anna Kavan (born April 10, 1901 as Helen Emily Woods, died 1968) was an author.
		Anna Kavan's writing is inextricably tied up with the convolutions of her tragic life.
		Yet with Anna Kavan the stories and novels are so subjective in tone that it is as if she wishes, in reality, to write her own spiritual autobiography but, rather than do this, has dressed up her sufferings and longings in fictional terms.
	www.bookrags.com /Anna_Kavan (373 words)

	What's the Story: Reading Anna Kavan's Ice
		Anna Kavan's Ice is a novel of relentless, evanescent beauty that depicts a world in which two explicitly linked forms of violence dominate and inexorably and insanely destroy it.
		But Anna Kavan's is the only case I know of an author assuming the name of one of her protagonists.
		Kavan's experiments with style proceeded through conscious choice and likely reflected her sense that she had exhausted the possibilities of conventional narrative techniques in her constant mining of the vein of material that most interested her.
	www.lcrw.net /fictionplus/duchampkavan.htm (3227 words)

	Anna Kavan - YKY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Kavan adını "Women's Liberation için öncü bir çaba" olarak nitelenen Beni Rahat Bırak romanının kadın kahramanından aldı.
		Kavan, kahramanın nefret ettiği ve küçümsediği kocasının soyadıydı.
		Anna Kavan, egzotik hayatını yazdıklarına yedirişi, düş dünyası ve kâbus dolu muhayyilesi dolayısıyla sık sık benzetilip kıyaslandığı Anaïs Nin gibi kültleşmiş bir yazar.
	www.ykykultur.com.tr /yazar/yazar.asp?id=505 (182 words)

	The thwarted fiction of Anna Kavan - TLS Highlights - Times Online
		Kavan tended to be defensive about her poetic prose, a style which many people – including her own publisher – found obscure and confusing.
		Anna Kavan was born Helen Emily Woods on April 10, 1901, in Cannes.
		Kavan was strangely indifferent to literary fame, insisting that she wrote for herself first.
	tls.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,25339-2466141,00.html (2556 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Stranger Still: Livres en anglais: Anna Kavan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavan (1901-1968), who was addicted to heroin for most of her adult life, portrays her alter ego as a born outsider, giving contemporary appeal to the protofeminist heroine who is resolved to take control of her destiny.
		Kavan (Mercury, 1995), a writer always attuned to sensibility and mood, offers a story with a strong autobiographical element and period flavor that, in keeping with the despair that lurks beneath the surface, brings little solace.
		Anna Kavan has left her husband Matthew in Burma and fled to London, but the attentions of a wealthy old judge who wants her to be his mistress, and the difficulties of a frustrating business venture with a friend, have driven her to France.
	www.amazon.fr /Stranger-Still-Anna-Kavan/dp/0720609550 (595 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Anna Kavan (born April 10, 1901 as Helen Emily Woods, died 1968) was a British author and painter.
		Kavan was addicted to heroin for most of her adult life, a dependency which was generally undetected by her associates, and for which she made no apologies.
		An inveterate traveler, Kavan spent twenty-two months of World War II in New Zealand, and it was that country's proximity to the inhospitable frozen landscape of Antarctica that inspired the writing of Ice.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Anna_Kavan (286 words)

	Kōtare 2004, Volume Five, Number One [electronic resource] - Anna Kavan Meets a New Zealand Writeron His Special ...
		Anna Kavan, (1901-68) prolific English writer and painter, globetrotter extraordinaire, heroin addict, and friend of conscientious objector Ian Hamilton, lived on Auckland’s North Shore in 1941-42.
		Identification of the numerous personages mentioned by Kavan is proving to be a stimulating and often entertaining process.
		Kavan’s identification of these people is less specific than the clue-laden portrayals she provides of her less-illustrious Torbay neighbours, indeed, in many cases, the residents of Torbay are actually named, and I have found that, in many cases, their descendants still live in the same houses.
	www.nzetc.org /projects/kotare/archives/Kotare051/_N69729.html (1150 words)

	Sleep Has His House
		Brief flashes of daily experience from childhood, adolescence and youth are described in what Kavan terms ‘night-time language’ — a heightened, decorative prose that frees these events from their gloomy associations.
		Anna Kavan maintained that the plot of a book is only the point of departure, beyond which she tries to reveal that side of life which is never seen by the waking eye, but which dreams and drugs can suddenly illuminate.
		ANNA KAVAN, née Helen Woods, was born in Cannes — probably in 1901; she was evasive about the facts of her life — and spent her childhood in Europe, the USA and England.
	www.peterowen.com /pages/modclas/sleep.htm (454 words)

	Anna Kavan: Life
		Anna Kavan was born "Helen Woods" in Cannes, France on April 10, 1901 to wealthy expatriate British parents.
		Anna spent her childhood in several European countries, California and England.
		It was also at that time that she adopted the name of Anna Kavan, taken from a character in her novel Let Me Alone with whom she identified.
	redmood.com /kavan/akbio.html (337 words)

	Anna Kavan (de Lola Robles), en mujerpalabra.net
		Anna Kavan es poco conocida en España; sólo se han traducido dos de sus obras: Hielo, y un libro de relatos, Mi alma en China.
		Resumo brevemente: Anna Kavan (seudónimo de Helen Woods) nació en Cannes, Francia, en 1901, hija de padres británicos; el padre se suicidó cuando Helen tenía trece años.
		Y sin embargo -y es el gran logro de la escritura de Kavan- a través de esos textos que rezuman una terrible autocompasión, percibimos con nitidez su poder de víctimas, lo insoportable que debe ser vivir con ellas.
	www.mujerpalabra.net /conoce_a/pages/kavan.htm (1738 words)

	Powell's Books - Asylum Piece (Peter Owen Modern Classics) by Anna Kavan
		Anna Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer.
		This collection of interlinked and largely autobiographical stories (Kavan suffered numerous breakdowns and was a life-long heroin addict) evokes the sense of paranoia and persecution found in The Trial, though her deeply personal, restrained, and almost foreign-accented style has no true model.
		The same characters who recur throughout — the protagonist's unhelpful "advisor, " the friend/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.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0720611237 (212 words)

	Amazon.com: Change the Name: Books: Anna Kavan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While her strange odyssey never ceases to enthrall, as the narrative progresses Kavan subtly shifts the center of gravity to Clare's doomed situation while Celia recedes: smiling, triumphant, commanding fear and awe.
		Though she died in 1968, Kavan's excellent body of work (including Asylum Piece and Other Stories, Kesend Pub., 1980) has been intrepidly kept in print and available to U.S. readers by several small publishers.
		Kavan has a lovely gift for description, and her rendering of pre-World War I England is vivid and evocative.
	www.amazon.com /Change-Name-Anna-Kavan/dp/072060883X (841 words)

	Amazon.fr : Change the Name: Livres en anglais: Anna Kavan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While her strange odyssey never ceases to enthrall, as the narrative progresses Kavan subtly shifts the center of gravity to Clare's doomed situation while Celia recedes: smiling, triumphant, commanding fear and awe.
		Though she died in 1968, Kavan's excellent body of work (including Asylum Piece and Other Stories, Kesend Pub., 1980) has been intrepidly kept in print and available to U.S. readers by several small publishers.
		Kavan has a lovely gift for description, and her rendering of pre-World War I England is vivid and evocative.
	www.amazon.fr /Change-Name-Anna-Kavan/dp/072060883X (514 words)

	Anna Kavan, Englishwoman - New York Times
		In your comments on the reissue of Anna Kavan's ''Julia and the Bazooka'' and ''Ice'' (New & Noteworthy, Nov. 24), you refer to the author as ''French-born,'' which is somewhat misleading.
		Both her parents were British and merely happened to be living on the Riviera when Anna Kavan was born in 1901.
		She was educated in England, both of her husbands were British, and she began her career as a novelist in England, writing as Helen Ferguson, before 1940, when she adopted the name of a character in one of her early novels.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E7D8153BF931A15751C1A963948260 (159 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ice: Books: Anna Kavan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kavan's 1967 hallucinogenic end-of-the-world novel follows two men's search for a girl as waves of ice threaten to destroy the planet.
		It is the last novel in the second half of Kavan's literary career and is generally considered the best of that period.
		To an extent, appreciation of Anna Kavan's unique artistry is stifled by the lack of a profile.
	www.amazon.ca /Ice-Anna-Kavan/dp/0393302563 (793 words)

	Anna Kavan
		She then emerged with Asylum Piece, an amazing series of connected stories, written under her invented persona Anna Kavan, depicting in an intense and original manner the clinical states of mind that she had experienced.
		She went on to a life of constant drug addiction that switched between productive periods as a novelist, painter, and editor, wife and mother, and suicidal intervals with long stays in mental hospitals.
		Kavan's fiction, haunting, shocking and implacable, represents a major artistic accomplishment and provides a signpost into a world where addiction and depression are claiming so many perceptive and creative people.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Anna_Kavan.htm (248 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Anna Kavan (1901)
		Anna Kavan was born "Helen Woods" in Cannes, France on April 10, 1901 to wealthy expatriot British parents.
		She went through detoxification many times before her death, but always returned to what she called her "bazooka".
		The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001).
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=276 (691 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Anna Kavan and I Am Lazarus
		The off-white non-pictorial dust jacket has chips and short tears along top edges and at head of spine (no lettering lost); chip to foot of spine with small loss of publisher's logo; spine browned and a little rubbed; light darkening, light soiling, to panels; good, flap price intact.
		The author's second collection of (15) short storie s, third book as "Anna Kavan", and 9th book overall.
		These stories of considerable power concern people on the edge - depressed and desperate, as the author herself so often felt (she was a heroin addict from 1926).
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/an/Anna+Kavan+/tn/+I+Am+Lazarus+ (381 words)

	food 4 thought : books
		Kafka cavorts with Plath in this post-apocalyptic novel by the late Anna Kavan.
		A thermonuclear device has been detonated, and the world slowly awaits its fate as the planet freezes.
		It mirrors the futility of the political games, where the various powers vie to gain power over a dying world.
	www.spoonfedamerika.com /amerikaHOME/amerikaFOOD/books01/kavan.html (228 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Anna Kavan and Horizon
		AbeBooks: Search Results - Anna Kavan and Horizon
		Cyril Connolly (ed), contributions by Anna Kavan, Basil Jonzen, George Orwell and others
		Cyril Connolly (ed), contributions by A J Ayer, Henri Matisse, Ghika, Anna Kavan and others
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/an/Anna+Kavan+/tn/+Horizon (232 words)

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