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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. It is also notable for its intense, gothic prose style.
- Djuna Barnes, Cheryl J. Plumb
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- 1936
12,934 ratings1,549 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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When Djuna Barnes permanently settled herself in Greenwich Village, she became a notorious recluse, rarely leaving her apartment for any reason. In fact, she was so reclusive that her neighbor across the street would lean out his window every day and yell, “Djuna, are you alive?”
Nightwood Summary. Next. Bow Down. The book opens in 1880 when Hedvig Volkbein delivers her only child—a son named Felix. Immediately after naming her newborn, Hedvig dies. Her husband, Guido Volkbein (senior), died six months earlier of a fever, so the baby is an orphan.
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 which the boundaries of...
Djuna Barnes. Jeanette Winterson. Nightwood Capa dura – 5 fevereiro 1979. Edição Inglês por Djuna Barnes (Autor) 3,9 428 avaliações de clientes. Ver todos os formatos e edições. Capa dura. a partir de R$ 979,01 1 Usado a partir de R$ 979,01. A novel of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s. Número de páginas. 239 páginas. Idioma. Inglês.
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