Nightwood Paperback - 2006
by Djuna Barnes; Preface by Jeanette Winterson; Introduction by T. S. Eliot
From the rear cover
"One of the greatest books of the twentieth century."--William S. Burroughs
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force, has become a classic of modernist and lesbian literature since its first publication in 1936. Set in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars, Nightwood "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement).
It is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys--her husband the "Baron," their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole is illuminated by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor Matthew O'Connor. Most striking of all is Barnes's unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it," and The New York Times Book Review to assert: "Admired by Joyce, Nightwood is as important to the history of the 20th-century novel as Finnegans Wake--and more readable."
"Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass. You have taken in more than you know, and it will go on doing its work. From now on a part of your is pearl-lined."--from the Preface by Jeanette Winterson
"What I would leave the reader prepared to find is the great achievement of of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliant of wit and characterization and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy."--from the Introduction by T. S. Eliot
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- Title Nightwood
- Author Djuna Barnes; Preface by Jeanette Winterson; Introduction by T. S. Eliot
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-09-26
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780811216715 / 0811216713
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Lesbians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006019359
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 10/15/2006, Page 97
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