Djuna Barnes
1) Nightwood
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"Few novels in our time have received the extraordinary praise accorded Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. Originally published in 1936, it is recognized as one of the works that has changed the climate of the written word. 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 illumined by the fantastic monologues of the renegade doctor, Matthew O'Connor,...
2) Ryder
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
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The self-described "most famous unknown author in the world," Djuna Barnes (1892 - 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice of feminism, modernism, and lesbian culture. Best remembered for her 1936 novel Nightwood, Barnes began her career by writing poetry, short stories, and articles for avant-garde literary journals as well as popular magazines. She took the grotesque nature of reality as her recurrent theme, a pessimistic world view...
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Los cuentos de juventud de Djuna Barnes dibujan un mapa hacia la madurez de esta escritora que, con el paso del tiempo, ha sido reconocida como miembro de pleno derecho de la "generación perdida" y admirada por autores como James Joyce, Dylan Thomas o arson McCullers. Estos relatos, publicados en las principales revistas y periódicos neoyorquinos de principios del siglo xx, permiten conocer la bohemia, el origen de la obra de Barnes y entender...
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Djuna Barnes, a pesar de ser admirada por autores de la talla de James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Carson McCullers o Anaïs Nin, cayó en el olvido al ser opacada por los hombres de su generación, "la generación perdida". Sin embargo, el paso del tiempo ha puesto de manifiesto no solo su imprescindible contribución a la literatura modernista, sino también al feminismo, la sexualidad y la moralidad de un país cambiante que Barnes tuvo que dejar atrás...
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Sun and Moon classics volume 110
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Sun & Moon Press
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1996
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Sun and Moon classics volume 53
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Sun & Moon Press
Pub. Date
1995
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English
