Written a year or so before her death in 1968, in a sense she even foresaw her end in this story, although a wartime bomb destroys Julia. If it is possible to concentrate the nature of a person’s life into a brief sketch, then that of Anna Kavan is conveyed perfectly in her story Julia and the Bazooka, which seems to me a most symmetrical example of the art by which this obdurately subjective writer chose elements of her life and transformed them into something rich and strange and basically true. For more from our archive and for original issues from our back catalogue, discover our Legacy Issuesfrom 1954 onwards.
It was written by Rhys Davies, a close friend of Anna Kavan’s, and was published alongside the short story ‘The Mercedes’.
The following piece is taken from The London Magazine, February 1970.
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