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A review by robforteath
Sleep Has His House by Anna Kavan
3.0
This book is mainly long ultra-descriptive dream sequences, separated by short explanatory prose that gives some context.
I soon became weary of plowing through the pages of detail that is often an entire chapter, and settled into speed-reading it, which meant I missed the point of some pieces. You are required to read the very detailed descriptions, imagine the dream in your head, then ponder it to see its meaning. This is asking a lot of the reader.
I think I would really enjoy this if it was in the form of dream sequence videos, with the autobiographical prose page between each left as text to read.
I soon became weary of plowing through the pages of detail that is often an entire chapter, and settled into speed-reading it, which meant I missed the point of some pieces. You are required to read the very detailed descriptions, imagine the dream in your head, then ponder it to see its meaning. This is asking a lot of the reader.
I think I would really enjoy this if it was in the form of dream sequence videos, with the autobiographical prose page between each left as text to read.