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Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature
Blurb: “Few novels in our time have received the extraordinary praise accorded
Djuna Barnes's NIGHT-WOOD. Originally published in 1936, it is recognized as one of the works that has changed the climate of the written word.
Taken in Paris, 1921 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 illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Connor, one of the strangest characters in all fiction.
T. S. Eliot, in his introduction, says, "What I would leave the reader prepared to find is the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy."
"Miss Barnes's prose is the only prose by a living writer which can be compared with that of Joyce, and in one point it 1s superior to his: in its richness of exact and vivid imagery. . . .
A style which is inevitable and inventive at the same time is the most powerful of all styles; • . Miss Barnes has this style"-Edwin Muir, The Present Age
"One of the three great prose books ever written by a woman." -Dylan Thomas, Light and Dark
Cover design by Gilda Kulman. Cover photograph by Roy Kuhlman