Sleep Has His House (novel)

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Sleep Has His House (first published as The House of Sleep in New York by Doubleday in 1947) is a novel by Anna Kavan. The novel is a dark coming of age narrative,^[1] which juxtaposes realistic semi-autobiographical accounting of life, with sections of subconscious wanderings.^[2]

First edition (cover art by Bill English)

According to critic Kate Zambreno, the novel was neither a popular nor critical success, leading to the publisher Jonathan Cape dropping her as one of their authors.^[2] Kirkus Review, when reviewing a 1980 reprint of the novel, called its style as having a "dreamlike quality--often beautiful but generally less effective [than her earlier work]".^[1]

See also

• Ice, a later novel by Kavan

References

1. "Review: Sleep has His House by Anna Kavan". Retrieved 16 October 2015.
2. Zambreno, Kate. "Anna Kavan". Dalkey Archive Press.

Further reading

• Garrity, Jane (1994). "Nocturnal Transgressions in The House of Sleep: Anna Kavan's Maternal Registers". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 40 (2): 253–277. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.0915. ISSN 1080-658X.