Ice novel anna kavan5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Gaiman, in his talk, dismissed as all but impossible-to place the reader in the narrator's dream-like state, to convey not only illogical turns of event and senseless certainties, but the claustrophobic eeriness they produce. Its primary purpose seems to be to achieve the effect that Mr. It is a short novel (the Peter Owen reissue is less than 160 pages long), and quite repetitive. Or perhaps a more accurate term would be nightmarish. ![]() ![]() Gaiman's way of describing this effect) that have no relation to logic, narrative, or even metaphor and symbolism.Īnna Kavan's Ice unfolds with a similar dream-like logic. Nothing, he claimed, is quite so boring as actual dreams, in which the mind's processing centers, cut off from the senses and from higher reasoning, continue to churn and light up, producing certainties and causal leaps ("and suddenly it wasn't my high school gym teacher it was my mother" is my best recollection of Mr. The speaker was Neil Gaiman, and his topic was dreams. About a year ago, I attended the guest of honor talk at ICon, the Israeli science fiction and fantasy convention. ![]()
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