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Admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Graham Greene, and Dylan Thomas, Djuna Barnes was the most influential and prolific female writer in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. The Modern Library is proud to include--for the first time--her most critically acclaimed novel, Nightwood, which was praised by The Washington Post Book World as "a masterpiece of modernism." Dorothy Allison, author of the National Book Award-nominated novel Bastard Out of Carolina, has written an Introduction especially for this edition, in which she defends Nightwood as a lesbian classic.
First published in the United States in 1937, Nightwood is a novel of bold imagining and passionate, lyrical prose. Described by the author as the soliloquy of "a soul talking to itself in the heart of the night," the novel creates a dreamlike world in which time ceases to exist and in which human beings transform into animals. At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote--a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood. But Nora cannot contain Robin, either, and Robin in turn deserts her for the larcenous Jenny Petherbridge. Rich in irony and symbolism, Nightwood brilliantly depicts the all-consuming power of erotic obsession in language that twists and turns, drawing the reader into a labyrinth of meaning and revelation. This edition also includes T. S. Eliot's Introduction to the 1937 American edition.
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, "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."
The storyline is kind of depressing because of Vote's roller-coaster mood. The literature is beautifully done, but the whole thing is still not that clear to me, especially in regards to its philosophical intertwined as well as social behavioral.
評分The storyline is kind of depressing because of Vote's roller-coaster mood. The literature is beautifully done, but the whole thing is still not that clear to me, especially in regards to its philosophical intertwined as well as social behavioral.
評分the most absurd, yet powerful and fascinating book I've ever read. Had I got the talent to write a novel, it would be something like that. As exquisite as poetry, as profound as a philosophical treatise, as absurd as a circuit. Elements of Eliot, Woolf, Proust... This is undoubtedly my favorite book so far.
評分The storyline is kind of depressing because of Vote's roller-coaster mood. The literature is beautifully done, but the whole thing is still not that clear to me, especially in regards to its philosophical intertwined as well as social behavioral.
評分The storyline is kind of depressing because of Vote's roller-coaster mood. The literature is beautifully done, but the whole thing is still not that clear to me, especially in regards to its philosophical intertwined as well as social behavioral.
Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一个加拿大朋友看了之后,跟我讨论这本书。当然,我只是稍微翻了翻Nightwood,并没有真正读。——因为太难了。 我跟朋友讨论的结果是,作者的词汇量和文笔可真是了不得,古今也就她这个一个特色。...
評分 評分读懂Nightwood佷难。个人的词汇、语句结构、知识面、理解力、想象力等等,都受到极大的挑战。此外,还有通篇不时出现的法语。这本书绝对是给高智商有才情的人读的。而且还得是readers of poetry. 当然,一旦读懂这本书,那将是精神世界的无上享受。 Djuna Barnes是一个罕见的优...
評分Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一个加拿大朋友看了之后,跟我讨论这本书。当然,我只是稍微翻了翻Nightwood,并没有真正读。——因为太难了。 我跟朋友讨论的结果是,作者的词汇量和文笔可真是了不得,古今也就她这个一个特色。...
評分Nightwood pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024