Sleep Has His House (Kavan novel)
First edition (cover art by Bill English)
Sleep Has His House (first published as The House of Sleep in New York by Doubleday in 1947) is a novel by Anna Kavan. The novel is a dark coming of age narrative,[1] which juxtaposes realistic semi-autobiographical accounting of life, with sections of subconscious wanderings.[2]
According to critic Kate Zambreno, the novel was neither a popular nor critical success, leading to the publisher Jonathan Cape dropping her as one of their authors.[2] Kirkus Review, when reviewing a 1980 reprint of the novel, called its style as having a " dreamlike quality--often beautiful but generally less effective [than her earlier work]".[1]
References
- 1 2 "Review: Sleep has His House by Anna Kavan". Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- 1 2 Zambreno, Kate. "Anna Kavan". Dalkey Archive Press.
Further reading
- Garrity, Jane (1994). "Nocturnal Transgressions in The House of Sleep: Anna Kavan's Maternal Registers". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 40 (2): 253–277. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0915. ISSN 1080-658X.
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