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Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

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Title	:	Nightwood
Author	:	Djuna Barnes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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Original Title:	Nightwood
ISBN:	0811216713 (ISBN13: 9780811216715)
Edition Language:	English

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The reading gods have a lot of time on their hands. They conspire, they do. How else to explain that two of the last four books I've read were hi-jacked by characters who went on essentially book-length perorations. In Embers by Sándor Márai, an old man invites a very old friend to dinner and then, for 120 pages, tells him the story the friend already knows. Here, in 'Nightwood', characters find themselves drawn to Matthew O'Connor, a cross-dressing, tortured alcoholic, playing at a doctor, who

I enjoyed the style and originality of Nightwood, but didn't love it, for two reasons. The first is that it is very much of its time. The novel feels like a push-back, a response to the status-quo, an attempt to embody some form of modernity. I felt I lacked context; I found it difficult to meaningfully relate to this narrow, obsolete zeitgeist. The second reason, is that I could not connect deeply enough to the characters - especially to the three women - to feel involved in their minds and the

Rating: 1.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: 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 Viennaa 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

Nightwood is the sound of hearts breaking, written on the page, spread out for all to see, five lives, five people eviscerated and eviscerating each other. These people fucking kill me, they are so sad and so full of nonsense and so determined to live in their own personal little boxes, striving for epiphanies that they barely even understand, trying to be a certain idea of What a Person Is. Is that what I'm like? Maybe that's what everyone is like. Barnes lays out these characters' lives like

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

"We are but skin against a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality."The language of this novel is outstanding. It's vibrant, engaging and utterly confusing. It's philosophy made poetry. And I am neither a philosopher nor a poet.This book is and will most certainly always remain a mystery to me. The plot is the easy part:Woman marries dude, has his child, leaves him for another woman, leaves her for another woman, and everybody is friends with the Doctor. Not the Doctor, though.What remains

I still see far too frequently folks adding the Truncated Nightwood to their reading. The one slashed up by Eliot in order to get it past the Uptight Folks. If you want Barnes as Barnes wrote herself, you'll have to do better than a slim cheap pb (even if it is a New Directions). And it's easy enough to do with this beautiful (OUT OF PRINT) Dalkey ed by Cheryl J. Plumb.If you're interested in the controversies about BAN'd Books and things of this nature, you'll not be reading that ubiquitous