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28 de abr. de 2024 · ‘Nightwood’ follows the emotional destruction wrought by Robin Vote, an androgynous and hard-partying American woman living in Europe between the world wars. We meet Robin passed out on the floor of a Paris hotel where an unlicensed doctor, Matthew O’Connor, has been summoned from a nearby café to revive her.
- Reading Djuna Barnes's RYDER - by Chad W. Post
Djuna Barnes was born in 1892, and was a highly sought after...
- Reading Djuna Barnes's RYDER - by Chad W. Post
27 de abr. de 2024 · In Nightwood, Ryder and The Book of Repulsive Women, Djuna Barnes employs strange, obscene and sometimes disturbing bodily imagery, featuring human-animal hybrids and unconventional outsider figures which destabilise the distinction between desire and disgust in a...
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Há 4 dias · I have, off the back of this, started reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, which I am surprised has never crossed my mitts, given its place in homosexual and modernist canon. I’m enjoying the prose quite a bit so far.
16 de mai. de 2024 · Book Review: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Nightwood was rated as one of the hardest novels to read in the 20th century. Stream of consciousness, large monologues, sequences of meanings divided by phrases or fragments, and Barnes’s personal language style all make reading difficult.
Há 1 dia · Slide names only four familiar gay novels of the first half of the 20th century in English: Djuna Barnes' Nightwood (1936), Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar (1948).
16 de mai. de 2024 · Djuna teve um relacionamento conturbado com a artista plástica Thelma Wood e frequentava reuniões com outras escritoras na casa de Nathalie Barney. Em 1928, por serem tempos difíceis para lésbicas, teve que publicar anonimamente uma de suas melhores obras, “O Almanaque das Damas”, no qual celebrava o erotismo lésbico com ...
