A review by jesslynsukamto
Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan by Anna Kavan

5.0

to have this alongside the languid void-staring experience of internal turmoil is a match made in heaven that one will never have guessed. the richness and elucidity of Kavan in describing the perception of going down cold, bleak, yet delusion-ally passionate, streamlines from one short story to another. they run a wide range, from straightforward examinations of human beings, to the semi-surreal & science-fiction, to the avant-garde. Kavan manages to bring her personal view of world, full of mists and fogs and blurry distinctions in things by explores themes of shifting reality, unreliable perception, hallucinatory visions that rely so closely to home for some, while manages to blur the boundaries between reality and the fiction, without making it so heavily on magical realism but rather, autobiographical. it is certainly obscure writing, and not everyone could like the taste of her wraithlike, self-martyred prose.