Ice
by Anna Kavan
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“Ice is a science-fictional work describing a young woman pursued by two different men, in the context of a climate apocalypse, with glaciers slowly covering the surface of the earth. This novel offers a feminist interpretation of modernism’s obsession with the relation of subject and object. The woman is relentlessly objectified by the male gaze. Thus the book mediates on the power relations that determine what persons get to express and explore their inner lives.” Read more...
Michael Clune, Literary Scholar
