安娜・卡文（Anna Kavan，1901 年 4 月 10 日 —1968 年 12 月 5 日），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



參考書目


* "A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan", by Jeremy Reed. London: Peter Owen, 2006.



外部連結


* Anna Kavan Society （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Anna Kavan on Open Library （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* 網路推理小說資料庫上的 Anna Kavan

* Anna Kavan 在國會圖書館管理局的紀錄，有 42 條目錄紀錄