{"product_id":"books-asylum-piece-by-anna-kavan","title":"Asylum Piece","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\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/i\u003e 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 protagonist's unhelpful adviser, the friend and 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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53510837272849,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780720611236.jpg?v=1778180616","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-asylum-piece-by-anna-kavan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}