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Nightwood Quotes. “The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”. “I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”. “I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”. “Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.”.
14 de jul. de 2017 · Nightwood is the best-known novel by Djuna Barnes, American-born expat who spent much of her life among the lesbian circles in 1930s Paris. Published in 1936, it has long been considered her literary masterpiece, and is still regarded as one of the most influential works of modernist fiction. This experimental novel explores the lives and loves ...
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, circa 1921. Djuna Barnes (Cornwall-on-Hudson, 12 giugno 1892 – New York, 18 giugno 1982) è stata una scrittrice, illustratrice e giornalista statunitense.. Giocò un importante ruolo nello sviluppo del linguaggio modernista inglese del XX secolo e fu una delle figure chiave negli anni venti e trenta dell'ambiente bohémien parigino dopo esserlo stato nel primo decennio del ...
5 de abr. de 2007 · Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.
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17 de mar. de 2014 · Djuna Barnes might be celebrated as a pioneer of modernist writing, her 1936 novel Nightwood a beacon of both modernist fiction and queer literature. But few know that Barnes was also a formidable journalist — a practitioner of literary journalism decades before Gay Talese pioneered the genre.
— T.S. Eliot on Nightwood1 In her introduction to Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood (1937), Jeanette Winterson repeats T.S. Eliot’s assertion that this is a book that must be read more than once. However, in the rush of modern life, she suggests, readers are not willing to set aside the neces-sary time.
