Artikel
Exploring the Realm of the Unconscious in Anna Kavan’s "Sleep Has His House"
Verfasst von:
Van Hove, Hannah
in:
Women
London:
2017
,
358-374 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Van Hove, Hannah |
| In: | Women |
| Jahr: | 2017 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| In 1964, the number of registered heroin addicts in Britain was 753. One of these was Anna Kavan, née Helen Woods. Beginning her writing career under the name Helen Ferguson, she wrote conventionally realist novels that enjoyed modest commercial success. In 1939–40, after a number of serious breakdowns and suicide attempts, and now calling herself Anna Kavan, Woods/Ferguson left a Swiss sanatorium addicted to heroin, which had almost certainly been therapeutically prescribed for sleeping disorders and severe depression. From then until her death in 1968, when she was found collapsed over a box of heroin, Kavan had an intermittent but intense relationship with the drug. This essay examines the ways in which Kavan has been constructed as an ‘addict writer’, both by her biographers and critics, and how this designation has influenced critical readings of her work. | |
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| Works cited: Seiten 372-374 | |
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