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Barbara Molinard
Panics
English · Paperback / Softback
Will be released 13.09.2022
Description
A haunting, bizarre short story collection by Marguerite Duras's protégé, about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.
About the author
Barbara Molinard (1921–1986) 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 Taïa's A Country for Dying, Virginie Despentes's Pretty Things, and Barbara Molinard's Panics.
Summary
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.
In the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, Leonara 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.
Product details
| Authors | Barbara Molinard |
| Assisted by | Marguerite Duras (Foreword), Emma Ramadan (Translation) |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Paperback / Softback |
| Release | 13.09.2022, delayed |
| EAN | 9781558612952 |
| ISBN | 978-1-55861-295-2 |
| No. of pages | 128 |
| Subjects |
Fiction
> Narrative literature
FICTION / Absurdist, FICTION / Feminist, FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century |
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