Panics

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By Barbara Molinard

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Panics is a haunting and bizarre collection of thirteen short stories by Barbara Molinard, exploring themes of violence, mental illness, and the paradoxes of the twentieth-century female experience. The stories unfold with a frantic, off-kilter rhythm, featuring surreal and nightmarish scenes such as a woman captivated by a boa constrictor, surgeons performing dismemberment, and eerie encounters involving sleeping in cemetery vaults. Molinard's work evokes the unsettling styles of Kafka and Barnes, delving into suffering and control with absurdist yet incisive insight.
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Panics will appeal to readers who appreciate literary fiction with a surreal, psychological edge, especially those interested in explorations of mental illness and the female experience through experimental storytelling.

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A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.

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 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781558612952

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Emma Ramadan
Preface by Marguerite Duras

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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Barbara Molinard Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

Barbara Molinard (19211986) wrote and wrote, but published only one book: a collection of short stories titled Viens. Everything she wrote, she immediately tore up, and it was only through the relentless urging from her husband, the filmmaker Patrice Molinard, and her friend Marguerite Duras, that she finally handed over a single collection of stories to Editions Mercure de France in 1969.

Emma Ramadan is an educator and literary translator from French. She is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright. Her translations include Abdellah Taa's A Country for Dying, Virginie Despentes's Pretty Things, and Barbara Molinard's Panics.