Panics by Barbara Molinard PAPERBACK 9781914391408

Name: Panics by Barbara Molinard PAPERBACK 9781914391408
Brand: Influx Press

Influx Press

PanicsAuthor(s): Barbara Molinard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Influx Press\nImprint: Influx Press\nISBN-13: 9781914391408, 978-1914391408\nSynopsis\nA 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 [tel] 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 to.