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This article looks in detail at Anna Kavan's time working with soldiers suffering from effort syndrome during the Second World War, and ways in which this influenced her wartime stories collected in I Am Lazarus (1945).
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Why is it important?
As an experimental British writer, Anna Kavan's work is drawing increased scholarly attention.
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This page is a summary of: Hearts and Minds: War Neurosis and the Politics of Madness in Anna Kavan's I Am Lazarus, Women a Cultural Review, October 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1388585.
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