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Anna Kavan - I Am Lazarus: Stories (1945)
>(...) the stories collected under the title I Am Lazarus are a brilliant summation of the war experiences of Anna Kavan in Blitz-era London, working among invalided soldiers at a military neurosis centre in Mill Hill. Kavan s view of the capital and some of its war victims are typically original and oblique: Lazarus is a patient revived from catatonia; the Blitz spirit is coolly stripped of cheeriness and never-say-die in Glorious Boys and Our City ; The Gannets is a horror story reminiscent of Hitchcock; while in Who Has Desired The Sea and The Blackout the shell-shocked have found that war exacerbates long-suppressed psychological wounds. Chilling but compassionate classics, this collection, finally republished after many years, is an essential document of the era and of the mind of Anna Kavan.

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