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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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780720600223 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0720600227 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 192 pages |
| Publisher | Owen |
| Published On | 2000-04-01 |
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