安娜・卡文

安娜・卡文（Anna Kavan，），英國小說家，短篇小說作家和畫家。

生平

安娜・卡文出生在法國，是富裕冷淡雙親的唯一孩子，導致她終生苦於抑鬱症和精神疾病。她生長在歐洲和美國，並曾住在緬甸。

她結婚了又離婚兩次，一個兒子布萊恩於第二次世界大戰中喪生。她的女兒瑪格麗特在斯圖爾特埃德蒙茲出生，但分娩後不久去世。這對夫妻領養了一個女兒，命名為蘇珊娜。

她最初的六部小說以海倫・弗格森為筆名。安娜・卡文沉迷於海洛因，普遍被認為因吸食海洛因過量猝逝。事實上，她死於心臟衰竭，雖然她曾企圖自殺過數次。

風格

她一直被人們與弗吉尼亞・伍爾夫和阿娜伊斯・寧（Anaïs Nin）、Djuna Barnes、卡夫卡等人相互比較。

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