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An edition of Asylum piece and other stories (1940)

Asylum piece and other stories

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Since Anna Kavan died in 1968 there has been a strong revival of interest in her writings. Asylum Piece, a study of various aspects of insanity, first appeared in 1940 and still enjoys a reputation as one of its author's most original and perceptive books. It as, however, long been out of print.

Reviewing the original edition in the Sunday Times Sir Despond MacCarthy wrote:

'If Asylum Piece is not based on actual experience it is certainly an astonishing achievement. ... What is remarkable is that the subject of these stories not only kept the lamp alight in the fog of, at any rate, impending insanity, but was able to project dramatically the experience of fellow sufferers. That is just what the really insane can never do. ... There is a beauty about these stories which has nothing to do with their pathological interest, and is the result of art. Two or three, if signed by a famous name, might rank among the story-teller's memorable achievements. There is beauty in the stillness of the author's ultimate despair.' (From the book jacket, british reprint published in 1972).

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
212

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Asylum piece and other stories
Asylum piece and other stories
2001, Peter Owen, Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions
in English
Cover of: Asylum Piece and Other Stories
Asylum Piece and Other Stories
1984, February, Michael Kesend Pub Ltd
Paperback in English
Cover of: Asylum Piece and Other Stories
Asylum Piece and Other Stories
1984, February, Michael Kesend Pub Ltd
Hardcover
Cover of: Une représentation à l'asile
Une représentation à l'asile
1983, Christian Bourgois
in French - First edition in France
Cover of: Asylum piece and other stories
Asylum piece and other stories
1980, M. Kesend Pub.
in English
Cover of: Asylum piece and other stories
Asylum piece and other stories
1972, Peter Owen
Hardcover in English - New edition
Cover of: Asylum piece and other stories
Asylum piece and other stories
1946, Double Day
in English - First American edition
Cover of: Asylum piece and other stories
Asylum piece and other stories
1940, Jonathan Cape
- First edition

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Table of Contents

The birthmark
Going up in the world
The enemy
A changed situation
The birds
Airing a grievance
Just another failure
The summons
At night
An unpleasant reminder
Machines in the head
Asylum piece
The end in sight
There is no end.

Edition Notes

Published in
London, Chester Springs, PA, Chester Springs, PA
Series
Peter Owen modern classics
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.912, 823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6009.D63 A94 2001, PR6009.D63A94 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
212 p. ;
Number of pages
212
Dimensions
18,6 x 12,3 x 13 inches
Weight
227 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3748674M
ISBN 10
0720611237
ISBN 13
9780720611236
LCCN
2003430730
OCLC/WorldCat
45438917
Library Thing
1273793
Goodreads
636226

Excerpts

One loses sleep, it becomes harder and harder to take any interest in conversation, books, music, plays, eating and drinking, love-making, even in one’s personal appearance. Ultimately one becomes completely cut off from reality, alone in a world in which there is nothing to do but wait, day after day, for some fate at which one can only guess …

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