Nightwood / Djuna Barnes ; [introduction by T.S. Eliot].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Djuna

Contributor:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook

A New Directions paperbook ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

Sex addicts--Fiction.

Sex addicts.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1,2 & 3)

Physical Description:

xi-xvii, 170 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, [1961]

Summary:

"Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force, has become a classic of modernist and lesbian literature since its first publication in 1936. Set in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna during the decadent period between the two World Wars, Nightwood "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS)." "It is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys-her husband the "Baron," their child Guido, and the two women, Nora and Jenny, who love her; the whole is illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor Matthew O'Connor. Most striking of all is Barnes's 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," and The New York Times Book Review to assert: "Admired by Joyce, Nightwood is as important to the history of the 20th-century novel as Finnegans Wake-and more readable."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction by T.S. Eliot

Bow Down

La Somnambule

Night Watch

"The Squatter"

Watchman, What of the Night?

Where the Tree Falls

Go Down, Matthew

The Possessed.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood.

ISBN:

0811200051

9780811200059

OCLC:

280026