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26 de set. de 2006 · Hitler was calling for an end to degenerate art and dangerous books. All the while, Djuna Barnes was spending her summers at Peggy Guggenheim's estate in England, paying for her patron's charity by being witty and distracting, while laying out various drafts of Nightwood on the carpet in her room.
Djuna Barnes ( Cornwall-on-Hudson, Orange County in de staat New York, 12 juni 1892 – New York, 18 juni 1982) was een Amerikaans schrijfster van romans, korte verhalen en toneel, dichter en journalist. Daarnaast maakte zij illustraties, aanvankelijk in een stijl die rechtstreeks aan Aubrey Beardsley was ontleend, later in een meer eigen vorm.
31 de mar. de 2007 · Rereading: Set in the fading glamour of 1920s Paris, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood is a bleak, exotic, utterly unforgettable tale of the love and suffering of two women, writes Jeanette Winterson.
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) was an American writer known for Nightwood, a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature. She played a significant role in the development of twentieth-century English-language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 1930s bohemian Paris.
Her novel Nightwood became a cult work of modern fiction, helped by an introduction by T. S. Eliot. It stands out today for its portrayal of lesbian themes and its distinctive writing style. Since Barnes's death, Barnes has been cited as an influence by writers as diverse as Truman Capote, William Goyen, Isak Dinesen, John Hawkes, Bertha Harris ...
Auteur. Djuna Barnes, née le 12 juin 1892 à Cornwall, dans l' État de New York et morte le 18 juin 1982 dans le quartier de Greenwich Village, à New York, est une romancière, dramaturge et artiste américaine. Elle a parfois utilisé les pseudonymes de Lydia Steptoe et Lady of Fashion 1 .
"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 ...
