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WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD by Barbara Comyns
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A very unsettling and unpleasant read for me. Am I influenced by the knowledge of Kavan's biography, to feel uneasy about the unsettling ways her writing works on me? Am I thinking about her addiction when I read along and find myself thinking that she isn't completely in control of her own material?
A lot of writers/books I love are more disturbing than Kavan's novels, but with those others I frequently have the feeling, maybe because of my own ignorance of these writers, that they're in control ...more
A lot of writers/books I love are more disturbing than Kavan's novels, but with those others I frequently have the feeling, maybe because of my own ignorance of these writers, that they're in control ...more

May 30, 2020
Karen Michele Burns
marked it as to-read