| Edition |
First Feminist Press edition. |
| Description |
x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
First published as Vines by Éditions Mercure de France in 1969. |
| Summary |
"Translated into English here for the first time, Panics is a haunting, surreal short story collection by French writer Barbara Molinard, close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras. 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 herself recounts a time she yearned to sleep in a cemetery vault. Panics recovers the work of a writer and artist whose insights into violence, mental illness, and bodily autonomy are simultaneously absurdist and fiercely insightful." -- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Feminists -- Fiction.
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Mental illness -- Women -- Fiction.
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Women -- Violence against -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Ramadan, Emma, translator.
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Duras, Marguerite, preface author.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
9781558612952 paperback |
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1558612955 paperback |
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