Guilty, novela inédita de Anna Kavan
Me entero casualmente de la publicación en el Reino Unido de una novela de Anna Kavan (Cannes, Francia, 1901 – Londres, 1968) que permanecía inédita. Su título es Guilty, culpable. Les copio y pego lo que dice su editor Peter Owen:
Set in an unspecified but eerily familiar time and landscape, Guilty is narrated by Mark. He begins the novel as a young boy whose father has just returned from war. In spite of being garlanded as a hero, Mark’s father declares himself a pacifist and is immediately reviled in a country still suffering from the divisions of war. When his father is forced into exile Mark meets Mr Spector, a shady figure who from then on is a dominant force in Mark’s life, seeing him through his schooling, employment and even finding him accommodation. When Mark tries to break off with Mr Spector in order to pursue an engagement with the beautiful but docile Carla his life begins to unravel. Thwarted at every turn by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy he begins to fall prey to the machinations and insecurities of his guilt-ridden mind.
Ya conté en su día cómo supe de la existencia de esta autora de vida turbulenta y de su fascinante novela Mi alma en China. Desde entonces, la editorial El Nadir ha publicado también en castellano otros dos títulos: Hielo y Mercury.
Vía: The Guardian
