Sleep Has His House

Anna Kavan

first published 1973 Michael Kesend Pub Ltd, 1984 hardcover 182 pages

Since her death in 1968, there has been a strong revival of interest in Anna Kavan's work. Sleep Has His House, combining autobiography with surrealist experimentation, deserves to rank with the author's best works. In her foreword Anna Kavan writes: 'Life is tension or the result of tension; without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Sleep Has His House edition · 2003 · Peter Owen · 196 pages · 9780720611298
Sleep Has His House hardcover · 1984 · Michael Kesend Pub Ltd · 182 pages
Sleep Has His House paperback · 1984 · Michael Kesend Pub Ltd · 9780935576016
Demeure du sommeil edition · 1977 · Henri Veyrier · 9782851991577
Sleep Has His House edition · 1974 · Picador · 190 pages · 9780330241618
Sleep has his house edition · 1973 · Peter Owen · 190 pages

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.