FP Staff List: PANICS and French translations we love

A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, French author Barbara Molinard (1921–1986) wrote and wrote feverishly, but only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: the surreal, nightmarish collection Viens (Panics). In the unsettling tradition of Franz Kafka, Djuna Barnes, and Leonora Carrington, 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.

Educator and award-winning translator Emma Ramadan brings this collection to English readers for the first time. To celebrate Panics being accessible to a whole new audience, we’ve rounded up our favorite Feminist Press books translated from the French, just like Panics!

 
Panics
$15.95

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


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Apocalypse Baby
$17.95

Virginie Despentes
The search for a missing girl provides a scathing commentary on contemporary life.

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The Restless
$16.95

Gerty Dambury
A young girl's curiosity about her teacher's sudden disappearance sets the stage for a resonant analysis of 1960s Pointe-à-Pitre.

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Translation as Transhumance
$14.95

Mireille Gansel
This half memoir, half philosophical treatise is a humanist meditation on translation.

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The Living Days
$15.95

Ananda Devi
This novel of post-9/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, and the perturbing nature of desire.

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Bye Bye Blondie
$17.95

Virginie Despentes
Psychiatric institutions and class difference doom two young lovers from the start in this dark romantic comedy.

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Thérèse and Isabelle
$15.95

Violette Leduc
This hidden classic, censored for half a century, follows the obsessive pleasures and repressed secrets of two schoolgirls in love.
 

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The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
$14.95

Darina Al-Joundi and Mohamed Kacimi
The wild ride of a young woman’s sexual rebellion in war-torn Beirut.

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The Amputated Memory
$24.95

Werewere Liking
Noma Award-winning novel called "a deeply felt presentation of the female condition in Africa."

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The Defiant Muse: French Feminist Poems
$14.95

Domna C. Stanton
From the Middle Ages to the Present

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Pretty Things
$17.95

Virginie Despentes
A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the "perfect woman."

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Lucia Brown