Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1961, Paperback) 
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1961, Paperback)

 
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1961, Paperback)

Author: Djuna Barnes
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1961-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0811200051
ISBN-13: 9780811200059
Product ID: EPID512139
Description: Djuna Barnes balked at tradition and revolted against the conventional linear development of plot with this slim volume, which has long been considered her masterpiece. The work is an investigation into fin de siècle decadence and aliena...
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Synopsis
Djuna Barnes balked at tradition and revolted against the conventional linear development of plot with this slim volume, which has long been considered her masterpiece. The work is an investigation into fin de siècle decadence and alienation as experienced by a lesbian, a falsely pedigreed baron, an American expatriate journalist, and a shady doctor who all cross paths in Paris.

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Publication Date:1961-06-01

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
This 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.

Industry Reviews
"It was Virginia Woolf who delivered [an attack] on realism in the novel, but Miss Barnes has gone beyond Mrs. Woolf's practice of her own theory. For Miss Barnes is not even concerned with the immediate in time that fascinated the stream-of-consciousness novelists. In her novel poetry is the bloodstream of the universal organism, a poetry that derives its coherence from the meeting of kindred spirits...The story of the novel is like the biological routine of the body; it is the pattern of life, something that cannot be avoided, but it has the function of a spring, and nothing more. It is in their release from mere sensation, or rather the expression of such an attempted release, that Miss Barnes's characters have their being."
New York Times Book Review - Alfred Kazin (03/07/1937)

"For brilliance and formal beauty few novels of any age can compare with [this one]. But one must also say how desperate it is. Mr. Eliot condemns in advance any reader who feels superior to the three chief persons of the narrative, all of whom belong to the third sex. That, however, is not the point. The point is that Miss Barnes has strained rather than enriched our sensibilities. Nightwood is more fascinating than interesting."
Nation - Mark Van Doren (04/03/1937)

"Barnes memorialized her lost love in a great work of lamentation, 'Nightwood' in prose of haunting musicality and splendor...she can also be quite vulgarly funny...Shocking, confusingly structured, lyrical and haunting...Besides presenting Barnes's original vision of her masterpiece, Plumb's edition also provides useful textual and explanatory notes, as well as reproductions of the surviving typescript pages."
Washington Post Book World - Michael Dirda (11/12/1995)

"...a slim novel about American expatriates in Paris, about lesbians and a male transvestite, and a dubious, dolorous Austrian aristocrat...an overwhelming, anarchic cry of passion...and an ingenious threnody about the disreputable nature of desire."
Voice Literary Supplement - Edmund White

"Barnes writes of her characters as if they were animals in the pages of a biology textbook, suddenly appearing in a dictionary of Greek gods."
London Review of Books - Gaby Wood (07/04/1996)

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