安娜·卡文

安娜·卡文（Anna Kavan，1901年4月10日—1968年12月5日），英国小说家，短篇小说作家和画家。

生平

安娜·卡文出生在法国，是富裕冷淡双亲的唯一孩子，导致她终生苦于抑郁症和精神疾病。她生长在欧洲和美国，并曾住在缅甸。

她结婚了又离婚两次，一个儿子布莱恩于第二次世界大战中丧生。她的女儿玛格丽特在斯图尔特埃德蒙兹出生，但分娩后不久去世。这对夫妻领养了一个女儿，命名为苏珊娜。

她最初的六部小说以海伦·弗格森为笔名。安娜·卡文沉迷于海洛因，普遍被认为因吸食海洛因过量猝逝。事实上，她死于心脏衰竭，虽然她曾企图自杀过数次。

风格

她一直被人们与弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和阿娜伊斯·宁（Anaïs Nin）、Djuna Barnes、卡夫卡等人相互比较。

作品

A Charmed Circle (1929)

Let Me Alone (1930)

The Dark Sisters (1930)

A Stranger Still (1935)

Goose Cross (1936)

Rich Get Rich (1937)

Asylum Piece (1940)

Change The Name (1941)

I Am Lazarus (1945)

Sleep Has His House (a.k.a. The House of Sleep) (1948)

The Horse's Tale (with K. T. Bluth) (1949)

A Scarcity of Love (1956)

Eagle's Nest (1957)

A Bright Green Field and Other Stories (1958)

Who Are You? (1963)

Ice (1967)

Julia and the Bazooka (1970)

My Soul in China (1975)

My Madness: Selected Writings (1990)

Mercury (1994)

The Parson (1995)

Guilty (2007)

"Department of Slight Confusion." In Book: A Miscellany. No. 3, edited by Leo Bensemann & Denis Glover. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1941.

"Ice Storm." In New Zealand New Writing, edited by Ian Gordon. Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society, 1942.

"I Am Lazarus." Horizon VII, no. 41, 1943, 353–61.

"New Zealand: An Answer to an Inquiry." Horizon VIII, no. 45, 1943, 153–61.

"The Big Bang." In Modern Short Stories, edited by Denys Val Baker. London: Staples & Staples, 1943.

"Face of My People." Horizon IX, no. 53, 1944, 323–35.

"Face of My People." In Little Reviews Anthology 1945, edited by Denys Val Baker. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.

"I Am Lazarus." In Stories of the Forties Vol. 1, edited by Reginald Moore & Woodrow Wyatt. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945.

"Two New Zealand Pieces." In Choice, edited by William Sansom. London: Progressive Publishing, 1946.

"Brave New Worlds." In Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, 1946.

"The Professor." In Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. London, 1946.

"Face of My People." In Modern British Writing, edited by Denys Val Baker. New York: Vanguard Press, 1947.

"I Am Lazarus." In The World Within: Fiction Illuminating Neuroses of Our Time, edited by Mary Louise W. Aswell. New York: McGraw-Hill Books, 1947.

"The Red Dogs." In Penguin New Writing, Vol. 37, edited by John Lehmann. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.

"The Red Dogs." In Pleasures of New Writing: An Anthology of Poems, Stories, and Other Prose Pieces from the Pages of New Writing, edited by John Lehmann. London: John Lehmann, 1952.

"Happy Name." In London Magazine, edited by Alan Ross. London, 1954.

"Palace of Sleep." In Stories for the Dead of Night, edited by Don Congdon. New York: Dell Books, 1957

"A Bright Green Field." In Springtime Two: An Anthology of Current Trends, edited by Peter Owen & Wendy Owen. London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1958.

"High in the Mountains." In London Magazine, edited by Alan Ross. London, 1958.

"Five More Days to Countdown." In Encounter XXXI, no. 1, 1968, 45–49.

"Julia and the Bazooka." In Encounter XXXII, no. 2, 1969, 16–19.

"World of Heroes." In Encounter XXXIII, no. 4, 1969, 9–13.

"The Mercedes." In London Magazine 1970, 17–21.

"Edge of Panic." In Vogue, 1 October 1971, 75–83.

"Sleep Has His House" excerpts. In The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams. Foreword by Anthony Stevens. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1996

"The Zebra Struck" In The Vintage Book of Amnesia, edited by Jonathan Lethem. New York: Vintage Books, 2000