Nouvelles d'une vie - Julia et son bazooka

Description:

Here are fifteen startling stories that reflect the weird, thrilling realm into which this brilliant English writer's dangerous life and powerful artistic drive propelled her - thirty years of seesawing stability and chaos: constant drug addiction, suicide attempts, productive work in painting and editing, two marriages and a son, long sojourns in mental hospitals, widely admired novels and short stories. Her stories penetrate the black holes of human consciousness and perception, a region of hypnotic games and seductive hallucinations where everything is animate, where the vertiginous panic and tough pride of the outcast merge with a tender, tranquil appeal to what is beautiful and lasting. (From the book jacket,first american edition published in 1975).

subjects: English Short stories,  Manners and customs,  Fiction,  English literature,  Drug addicts,  Drug addiction,  Psychology,  Social life and customs,  Fiction, psychological,  English Psychological fiction

People: Julia,  Carla,  Oblomov,  Torquil,  M

Places: hospital,  garden,  jungle,  mountains,  room,  bathroom,  hotel,  on the road,  South of France,  tennis court,  boarding school

Times: 20th century