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A review by ichirofakename
Ice by Anna Kavan
3.0
Starts out very strong but does not progress anywhere, so the effect kind of peters out halfway through.
Guy chasing girl in dystopian world on brink of world-annihilating war, with occasional scenes about the approach of glaciers in the process of engulfing the planet. But these latter are rather psychedelically merged into the more believable war story. For no reason at the end the girl quits rejecting him so they sort of get together, though bound to die in the approaching armageddon.
Quite Kafka-esque, and there's a reason Kafka didn't write many full-length novels, because a wacky premise alone won't carry you past a few dozen pages.
Guy chasing girl in dystopian world on brink of world-annihilating war, with occasional scenes about the approach of glaciers in the process of engulfing the planet. But these latter are rather psychedelically merged into the more believable war story. For no reason at the end the girl quits rejecting him so they sort of get together, though bound to die in the approaching armageddon.
Quite Kafka-esque, and there's a reason Kafka didn't write many full-length novels, because a wacky premise alone won't carry you past a few dozen pages.