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Nightwood is a 1936 novel by American author Djuna Barnes that was first published by publishing house Faber and Faber. It is one of the early prominent novels to portray explicit homosexuality between women, and as such can be considered lesbian literature. [1] [2] It is also notable for its intense, gothic prose style. [2] .
- Djuna Barnes, Cheryl J. Plumb
- 1936
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12,968 ratings1,556 reviews. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world in ...
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The reputation of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood as a work of “marginal” modernism is complicated by its affinities with the aesthetics of high modernism, a fact signaled by its role as the inspiration of Joseph Frank's theory of spatial form. At once emblematic and eccentric, the novel is devoted to both recognition and obscurity.
- Brian Glavey
- 2009
Learn about Djuna Barnes's semi-autobiographical novel Nightwood, a modernist masterpiece that explores themes of sexuality, identity, and feminism. Find summaries, analysis, quotes, characters, symbols, and more in this comprehensive study guide.
Nightwood is a novel of sexual and moral degeneration, set in the decadent shadows of Europe between the two World Wars. It features a cast of memorable characters, such as the Wandering Jew, the American expatriate, and the transvestite gynecologist, and a stylistic innovation that impressed T. S. Eliot and Jeanette Winterson.
Nightwood. Djuna Barnes. New Directions Publishing, 2006 - Fiction - 182 pages. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow...
