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18 de jun. de 2018 · Her first major works (the semi-autobiographical novel Ryder and the roman à clef Ladies Almanack) followed 13 years later, in 1928. In the intervening years, she moved to Paris, made friends of Peggy Guggenheim, and engaged in love affairs with both men and women. Her affair with Thelma Wood inspired her greatest work, the novel Nightwood.
Her Ladies Almanack was privately printed in Paris in 1928, the same year that Liveright in the United States published Ryder, her first novel. The book on which Barnes's fame largely rests is Nightwood (1936), a surrealistic story set in Paris and the United States, dealing with the complex relationships among a group of strangely obsessed characters, most of them homosexuals and lesbians.
6 de fev. de 2016 · She later used her art world connections to fund a literary career of her own, gaining notoriety for Nightwood (1936) a cult classic lesbian novel and a pioneering work of modernist fiction. Beginning in 1921, she lived for fifteen years in Paris as a correspondent for McCall’s .
Summary: "Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody." Library Journal Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a ...
14 de jul. de 2017 · Nightwood was edited by T.S. Eliot. Barnes, then in her mid-40s, was still overwhelmed by the breakup with her lover, Thelma Wood. The novel follows the obsessive love affair of two women, which led to Barnes being called a “lesbian evangelist.”. Despite the real-life parallel, Barnes despised and denied the label.
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27 de jun. de 2018 · This small body of work consists of four volumes: A Book, Ladies Almanack, Ryder, and Nightwood. A Book, a collection of Barnes's plays, short stories, poems, and drawings, appeared in 1923. The plays produced by the Provincetown Players are collected here, as well as early stories set in Paris and inspired by the people Barnes knew there.
