Abstract
This chapter considers the ways that Anna Kavan’s writing has been read during and after her lifetime and sets out a case for reading her work as mid-century experimental fiction. Interrogating the ways that her mental illness and her status as a woman writer have inflected the reception of her work and refuting a dominant critical narrative that has interpreted her writing as thematically autobiographical and stylistically sui generis, it argues thatKavan’s work is exemplative of experimental trends in mid-century fiction which disrupt the relationship between reader, character and author and reflect wider shifts in the perceived relationship between life and fiction.
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