Panics av Barbara Molinard

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<p><b>A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.</b><br></p>
<p>A close friend and protégé 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 <em>Panics</em>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonara Carrington, and more, <em>Panics</em> recovers the work of a tormented writer w