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Nightwood [Paperback]

Djuna Barnes (Author), Jeanette Winterson (Introduction)
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Publication Date: 5 April 2007

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.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (5 April 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 057123528X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571235285
  • Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Djuna Barnes' extraordinary novel, Nightwood, documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties.

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Djuna Barnes was born in 1892 in Cornwall-on-Hudson in New York State. In 1912 she enrolled as a student at Pratt Institute and then at the Art Students' League, and while she was there she started to work as a reporter and illustrator for the Brooklyn Eagle. In 1921 she moved to Paris, where she lived for almost twenty years and wrote for such publications as Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Nightwood, written in 1936, was her second novel. It is now considered a masterpiece, praised by T. S. Eliot for its 'great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy'. Her other works include A Book, a collection of short stories, poems and one-act plays; a satirical novel, Ladies Almanack; and a verse play, The Antiphon. She died in New York in 1982.
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Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein-a Viennese woman of great strength and military beauty, lying upon a canopied bed of a rich spectacular crimson, the valance stamped with the bifurcated wings of the House of Hapsburg, the feather coverlet an envelope of satin on which, in massive and tarnished gold threads, stood the Volkbein arms-gave birth, at the age of forty-five, to an only child, a son, seven days after her physician predicted that she would be taken. Read the first page
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it! 7 Nov 2008
By nestingdoll
Format:Paperback
Having just finished it, I completely loved Nightwood, being the type of reader that goes heavily for imagery and metaphor, and found it one of the most exciting, fascinating books I've ever read, like the warped love-child of Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë. Challenging, yes, but I found it much more accessible than, say, Ulysses, which I never could get on with. I just let it wash over me. Vital, visual, unique; can only say that I found it breathtaking. I have read modernist writers before, so might be accustomed to oddities, but do not be scared off; it's writing that's alive and wild, and good grief, it's brilliant. I liked the way it takes the imagination into new and strange places, with such energy. This is what I read for.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the strangest book I have ever read. 10 May 2011
By PhilipStirups
Format:Paperback
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes is perhaps the strangest book I read during my 4 years of studying English. Not only in a thematic and literary sense, but also in its narrative, which seems to glide between these characters who are desperate to escape the confines of societal norms.
For all of its brevity, Nightwood is a hard-going and challenging read. At the end, I was not overly convinced by it- not to say, I disliked it, but I didn't really rate it either.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read 23 Dec 2011
By Vincent Creelan
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This is a remarkable read, for so many reasons; the language, the characters and the journey. Yes it is about three women and their sexual and emotional relationships and the men that circle around them, but about a deal more. The narrator of sorts is the Dr, happy as he is a charlatan of his own creation provides telling insights and amazing turns of phrase. Definetly one to make you think and want to re-read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Adrift, but found
The work requires something from you that most people give up on in the first instance. Fair enough, sometimes we want a page-turner, a flow of pleasure rather than exquisite pain. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dr Setz
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't know how she does it...
...but I'm glad it was accomplished. We all *know* a novel when we see one, but rarely do we come up with a testable and workable definition of one. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr M J King
2.0 out of 5 stars Only read it if you like modernist writing
Seriously, don't bother with this unless you like modernist writing. If you do, this book is for you. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Holly
3.0 out of 5 stars A prose poem...
... is T. S. Eliot's description of Djuana Barnes novel. It is that, and much more. I first read this novel almost 40 years ago; felt I understood very little of it. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2011 by John P. Jones III
5.0 out of 5 stars Nightwood
This is the most precious book I've ever had. It will need re-reading to get its
dark message. T.S. Elliot reviewed it some time ago. Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2010 by Mrs. C. Burns
2.0 out of 5 stars A book that is not meant to entertain, but be studied.
I read Nightwood as part of a course in modernism at University. I came to conclusion that the book is so reliant on symbolism that it doesn't stand as a whole. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2010 by Whyareyouonyourowntonight
1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong Information
There is no foreword by Jeanette Winterson in the edition shown -both the foreword and the introduction are by T.S. Eliot. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2007 by Not Impressed
2.0 out of 5 stars A minefield of aphorisms
Unless you enjoy being beaten over the head with aphorism after aphorism, avoid this novel. I thought the quotes on the cover proclaiming it as a classic were pernicious lies. Read more
Published on 20 Dec 2002 by MR SIETEL S GILL
5.0 out of 5 stars Cover does not do justice to Djuna Barnes' stunning novel
Djuna Barnes' "Nightwood" is the most exquisite book written in the English language. Flawed, pretentious, and magnificent. Each sentence breathtaking. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars Drama Queens on Parade
In Nightwood there is a purposeful distortion of biographical facts. The past is based on self-deception and self-forgetfulness. Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2001
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