Panics - Couverture souple

Molinard, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1914391403 ISBN 13 : 9781914391408

Editeur : Influx Press, 2024

Synopsis

A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience. A close friend and protege of Marguerite Duras, Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics. These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death, and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons dismember their patient, and the author narrates to Duras how she was stopped from sleeping in a cemetery vault, only to be haunted by the pain of sleeping on its stone floor. In the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonora Carrington, and more, Panics recovers the work of a tormented writer who often destroyed her writing as soon as she produced it, and whose insights into violence, mental illness, and bodily autonomy are simultaneously absurdist and razor-sharp.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Molinard (1921-1986) wrote and wrote, but published only one book: a collection of short stories titled Viens.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Influx Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1914391403
• ISBN 13: 9781914391408
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible