Fiction. Introduction by Giles Gordon. "A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father..." So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett. A member of a group of British avant-garde writers that included B.S. Johnson and Eva Figes, Ann Quin is one of the best kept secrets of British contemporary experimental writing. She published four novels, including THREE, before her death at the age of 37. "A remarkable first novel...Quin has undoubtedly been influenced by such French novelists as Nathalie Sarraute and by the nouvelle vague movement in the cinema. But BERG is something of a breakthrough in the sense that, for the first time, these techniques have been used to produce a novel that is both wholly English in atmosphere and quite unpretentious"—Times Literary Supplement.

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