{"product_id":"books-panics-by-barbara-molinard","title":"Panics","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\"\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 Panics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\"\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 \u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669663375633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781558612952.jpg?v=1781509926","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-panics-by-barbara-molinard","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}