- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers (May 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 072061287X
- ISBN-13: 978-0720612875
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,898,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
British author Kavan (1901–1968) plays with the confusion of reality and unreality in this understated posthumous novel set in a nebulous time and place. When Mark, the somewhat unstable and unreliable narrator, is young, his war-hero father treasonously converts to pacifism and is forced to abandon him. Further isolated by a gradual separation and distancing from his mother, Mark is fully cast adrift by his parents' deaths, for which he blames himself, in an enemy bombing during his last year at boarding school. The similarities between Kavan's work (Ice) and Kafka's quickly become evident when Mark, now an adult, must contend with a hostile and unresponsive government bureaucracy. He's also torn between the powerful and mysterious Mr. Spector, whom he sees as both protector and nemesis, and the enigmatic love interest, Carla, who remains tantalizingly near but remote. Kavan's ability to penetrate psychological tangles with startling acuity is in full force in this powerful journey conducted by a very troubled mind. (Jan.)
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Set in an unspecified but eerily familiar time and landscape, this is the story of Mark, a protagonist who struggles against the machinations of a hostile society and bureaucracy. Suffering at first from the persecution of his father as a conscientious objector, his life quickly comes under the control of the Machiavellian Mr. Spector, an influential government minister who arranges Mark's education, later employment, and even accommodation. It is when Mark tries to break free from Spector's influence that his life begins to unravel.
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Guilty is a Pleasure, Jun 15 2008
By D. Glasser - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Guilty: The Lost Classic Novel (Paperback)
I was so very pleased to learn that this book had been published. I bought it as soon as I found out. I absolutely love Anna Kavan's darkly beautiful use of language, and Guilty did not disappoint. I already own close to a dozen of her books so this one felt very familiar; with her ever present large automobiles, stifling bureaucracies, ice-cold relationships, etc. A wonderful addition my collection. Thank you Peter Owen.
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