Ice 1967 Literature

Anna Kavan

Ice is one of those books best recognized for just how weird it is, several parts of the book are entirely dreamed up by the nameless protagonist, and yeah, it's an incredibly hard one to follow if your reading gets even a little careless at times. It's very, uh, Crying of Lot 49-esque in this regard. What I mean by that is it's a whole lot of this and then that and then this, it's a very here, there, and everywhere type book. Ice's weird, creative and enchanting vision of the post-nuclear future, one where people fight with swords and guns, one with terrible marauders, looters and marauders aplenty, it's fascinating and makes for an excellent read.