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1 de ago. de 1995 · "Admired by Joyce, Nightwood is as important to the history of the 20th century novel as Finnegans Wakeand more readable." -- Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review 11-26-95 "Djuna Barnes remains a reminder of the Road Not Yet Takeninternational, devious, perverse, verbally abundant, psychologically subtle."
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26 de jan. de 2020 · Biography of Djuna Barnes, American Artist, Journalist, and Author. Writer Djuna Barnes returns to New York aboard the SS La Lorraine after a pleasure trip to France, 1922. Djuna Barnes was an American artist, writer, journalist, and illustrator. Her most notable literary work is the novel Nightwood (1936), a seminal piece of modernist ...
Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. One of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes' novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional.
Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes, was first published in 1936. It tells the story of Robin Vote and the lives of those she becomes entangled with as she struggles with her desires and need for freedom. While set mostly in 1930s Paris, the novel is cosmopolitan in nature, with action also taking place in Vienna, Berlin, and various parts of America.
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.
26 de set. de 2006 · In a way Barnes has followed through with Nora’s plot by giving Robin/Thelma something she would never be able to forgive. In truth Thelma Wood never spoke to Djuna Barnes again after she read Nightwood, so the idea of the two meeting again as strangers did not work out for the author.
Djuna Barnes (Cornwall-on-Hudson, 1892. június 12. – Greenwich Village, 1982. június 18.) amerikai művész, illusztrátor, újságíró és író, aki talán leginkább Nightwood (1936) című regényéről ismert, amely a leszbikus szépirodalom kultikus klasszikusa és a modernista irodalom fontos alkotása. [4]
