安娜·卡文

**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