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Nightwood

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Nightwood
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Djuna Barnes
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571235285
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 5 April 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Nightwood is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T.S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood 'while it was still running.' That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight year relationship with the love of her life. Now recognised as a twentieth-century classic, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional.

Author Biography

Djuna Barnes was born in 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson in New York State. She studied art and worked as a journalist in New York before moving to Paris in the twenties. Her other works include The Book of Repulsive Women (1915), Ladies Almanack (1928), Ryder (1928), the verse play The Antiphon (1958), and collections of journalism, interviews and short stories. She returned to Greenwich Village in1940 and died there in 1982.

Reviews

Djuna Barnes is a writer of wild and original gifts. . . .To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of Nightwood, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities---her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.--Elizabeth Hardwick