6/26/2023 0 Comments Ice anna kavan review(This is not the only knightly allusion – at one point she will be sacrificed by the villagers to a dragon). He follows her to a devastated town where he finds her living with the ‘warden’, a powerful, quasi-military figure who rules the town like a fiefdom, living in the High House, “a fortresslike mass built at its highest point.” With echoes of Arthurian legend, he must now rescue her from this tower. It was a sort of craving which had to be satisfied.” “Somehow or other I had to find her… There was no rational explanation, I could not account for it. This search is presented as a need, a compulsion: When he hears she has left, he decides he must find her, particularly as the climate has now begun to deteriorate. He recalls visiting her in her newly married state – “it was the first time I had seen her happy” – but is later convinced her husband has treated her badly. The narrator falls in love with a woman who leaves him and marries a painter. On the surface, like ice, the story is plain and clear. Indeed, it reads like an inverted version of that fairy tale, as our narrator searches for the woman he loves in the icy wasteland, believing she has come under the spell of her cruel captor. Not only does it portray a world consumed by a permanent winter of ice and snow it contains a coldness at its heart as if a splinter of the shattered mirror through which Kavan wrote her fiction had been inserted Snow Queen style into its centre. Few books suit winter like Anna Kavan’s Ice.
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