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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.
Born. in Cornwall-on-Hudson, The United States. June 12, 1892. Died. June 18, 1982. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian. edit data. Barnes has been cited as an influence by writers as diverse as Truman Capote, William Goyen, Isak Dinesen, John Hawkes, Bertha Harris and Anaïs Nin.
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Barnes interrogates our insistence upon narrated meaning. In Nightwood, Barnes put melancholia to work at the very center of the novel: displacing “proper” narrative form, revealing fundamental compulsions to retell, read, and know. Keywords: Djuna Barnes / narrative / melancholia / melancholy D juna Barnes began work on Nightwood in 1931.
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.
Djuna Barnes’s Paris is of its moment; yet Nightwood has survived not as a slice of history, but as a work of art. The excitements and atmosphere of her period are there, but there is nothing locked-in about Nightwood. Readers in 1936, when Nightwood was published in Britain, would have
Nightwood Quotes Showing 1-30 of 194. “The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”. ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood. tags: pain. 965 likes. Like. “I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”. ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood.
