I Am Lazarus

First published in 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 in this momentous era are typically original and oblique: ''Lazarus'' is a patient revived from catato...