{"product_id":"asylum-piece-and-other-stories","title":"Asylum Piece and Other Stories","description":"This collection of stories, mostly interlinked and largely autobiographical, chart the descent of the narrator from the onset of neurosis to final incarceration in a Swiss clinic. The sense of paranoia, of persecution by a foe or force that is never given a name, evokes The Trial by Kafka, a writer with whom Kavan is often compared, although her deeply personal, restrained and almost foreign-accented style has no true model. The same characters who recur throughout - the protaganist's unhelpful 'adviser', the friend\/lover who abandons her at the clinic and an assortment of deluded companions - are sketched without a trace of the rage, self-pity or sentiment that have marked more recent accounts of mental instability.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0935576029\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0935576029.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kavan, Anna\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43389518741565,"sku":"BVV.0935576029.A","price":46.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/asylum-piece-and-other-stories","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}