{"product_id":"9781914391408-panics","title":"Panics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003ePanics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonora Carrington, and more, \u003ci\u003ePanics \u003c\/i\u003erecovers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53573920620918,"sku":"9781914391408","price":8.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31307868.jpg?v=1731573662","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914391408-panics","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}