Books by Anna Kavan
“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
Interviews where books by Anna Kavan were recommended
The Best Modernist Novels, recommended by Michael Clune
Modernist novels emerged as a reaction against modernity but, in their focus on inner consciousness, captured the experience of living life like never before. American writer and critic Michael Clune picks five of the best modernist novels from 1936 up to 2013. Modernist literature is still with us, he explains, because what it was reacting against is still with us.
