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Nightwood

by Djuna Barnes
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Eccentric & evocative language; for literary enthusiasts

Nightwood has a rich and unique writing style that immerses the reader in a world of complex relationships and identities, with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community. Readers who appreciate modernist literature and rich, descriptive language will find themselves drawn into Barnes' world. While its unconventional narrative structure may not be for everyone, those who enjoy exploring complex characters and relationships will find Nightwood to be a rewarding read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Nightwood

by Djuna Barnes
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ISBN: 9780571235285
Authors: Djuna Barnes
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date of Publication: 2007-04-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Queer, LGBT, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 12640 readers)

Description

Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the love of her life.Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person—a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Recognised as a twentieth-century classic, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional.Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.
 

Eccentric & evocative language; for literary enthusiasts

Nightwood has a rich and unique writing style that immerses the reader in a world of complex relationships and identities, with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community. Readers who appreciate modernist literature and rich, descriptive language will find themselves drawn into Barnes' world. While its unconventional narrative structure may not be for everyone, those who enjoy exploring complex characters and relationships will find Nightwood to be a rewarding read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.