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Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

Rating: 3.66 | 8803 Users | 885 Reviews

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Original Title:	Nightwood
ISBN:	0811216713 (ISBN13: 9780811216715)
Edition Language:	English

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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 which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction—there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person—a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature. Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, Nightwood still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.

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Title	:	Nightwood
Author	:	Djuna Barnes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	September 26th 2006 by New Directions (first published 1936)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Novels

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Ratings: 3.66 From 8803 Users | 885 Reviews

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Many of the reviews of Nightwood on this website seem to reflect the same sentiment, 'how do I even review this?' I often think this is a bit of a cop-out review but in the case of Djuna Barnes' Modernist novel from 1936, utter disorientation seems to be the most fitting response.A novel generally follows a basic plot with some semblance of a structure and often has one main character. Nightwood begins the birth of Baron Felix. We learn about his false patronage and we follow him in his attempt

Everyman dies finally of that poison known as the-heart-in-the-mouth. Yours is in your hand. Put it back. The eater of it will get a taste for you; in the end his muzzle will be heard barking among your ribs.I wish I could say something clever about this book. Ive put it off till now because Im at a loss, as I so often am. Some novels force the breath out of your lungs, they force you to breathe the air they breathe, to live the life they create for you and to believe in the things they tell

Night people do not bury their dead, but on the neck of you, their beloved and waking, sling the creature, husked of its gestures. And where you go, it goes, the two of you, your living and her dead, that will not die; to daylight, to life, to grief, until both are carrion.Nightwood is such a strange book and this isn't so much a ramrod- straight person's reaction to gay-lesbian literature as the feverish, dream-like quality of the text like you've stumbled into someone's nightmare & can't

"I have been loved," she said, "By something strange, and it has forgotten me!"Here is something strange, a 1936 landmark of modernist gay poetry disguised as a novella. It's written with unstoppable confidence and verve and the dangerous knowledge that all people are possible, and any of them may be geniuses. It follows a love triangle of three women as they pursue each other hopelessly around the world. A gender-fluid doctor provides commentary and impenetrable advice. "I have a narrative," he

A strange and oddly removed portrayal of chained relationship collapse. Or not so much collapse, as the structures seem never so well-built as to merit the power and finality of a "collapse". Instead, constructed of ephemeral and ill-defined desires, these relationships barely exist to begin with, already well into their inexorable fade into nonexistence. The strongest structures about them were always the bitter unflagging despair of a human connection that will never, never be found. Even when

A short, but by no means easy novel set in Paris (mostly) in the 1930s. It is semi-autobiographical and contains some strong and memorable characters. My edition has two introductions. The first by T S Eliot says that to truly understand Nightwood you have to have a poetic sensibility (Well thsnks for that Tom; if I don't get it that means I am a complete philistine!!!}. After that I really wanted to hate the book but sadly couldn't. The other intro is an achingly heartfelt and passionate

You know what man really desires? inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him. Baron Felix is a man of pretenses. He is not really a baron at all, but his father had perpetrated the deception his whole life so Felixs filial legacy is to carry on the social duplicity. He kept a valet and a cook; the one because he looked like Louis the Fourteenth