Anna kavan best books6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss found her “friendly and welcoming.” Admittedly, these ordinary facts of life sit uneasily with much of the rest of Kavan’s story. She went to the London theater and drank in a notoriously festive West End gay pub called the Salisbury. She ran a small company that renovated properties. According to Callard, she not only knew who the Avengers were but also was a fan of Doctor Who. Jeremy Reed omits it, I suspect, because it suggests that Kavan really wasn’t such a stranger on earth after all. ![]() Callard’s 1992 biography The Case of Anna Kavan, published by Peter Owen it does not appear in A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan, issued by the same firm. Considering Kafka’s reputation and the success of The Avengers, I can’t think why you don’t want the book as it is!” Kavan immediately wrote back, with some spirit and what on paper, anyway, looks like good humor, saying, “This expresses quite accurately the effect I was aiming at. He also sent along a reader’s report that described Kavan’s writing, pretty correctly it seems to me, as a cross between Kafka and The Avengers. On March 23, 1966, the publisher Peter Owen sent a letter to Anna Kavan, not quite rejecting, though by no means accepting, her manuscript The Cold World. ![]()
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