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by Djuna Barnes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; 2nd edition (21 Mar 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0916583554
  • ISBN-13: 978-0916583552
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Achievement, 5 Jul 1999
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This is an amazing work. A mostly autobiographical parody, Barnes uses Ryder as sort of a twisted extended metaphor for the rest of the world. The beautiful and inventive prose, though often obscure, illustrates the life of the Ryder family poignantly and indignantly. Written in various styles, the book is bound to touch each and every reader.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Barnes' novel "Ryder" an incomparable masterpiece, 30 May 2007
By gary shooter (Surrey, B.C., Canad) - See all my reviews
The great literary eccentric Djuna Barnes, beloved by (amongst other major literary figures)T.S. Eliot, is best known for her neo-Jacobean literary works, the novel "Nightwood" and the play "Antiphon." Although I have immense fondness for the novel "Nightwood," I think that her novel "Ryder" is her absolute masterpiece. A book of Rabelaisian humour and joy, it veritably bursts forth all over the place with Life and Lust. One would think that critical followers of Bakhtin(i.e., Mikhail Bakhtin of "Rabelais and his World" fame who advanced a 'polyphonic' theory of the novel form) would have a field day with this novel. And what of feminist literary critics? This book is a masterpiece of twentieth century literature. The fact that this book is not studied in twentieth century literature classes alongside the works of Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Yeats and William Carlos Williams is an implicit reproach to the molasses-brained sloths who inhabit academia. But don't just read this novel because it's a masterpiece(and it is, children) - read it because it's fun! Does Djuna Barnes have a command of the English language? Metaphorically speaking, she brandishes a whip! Open these pages and you'll fall in love with this book - and maybe you'll fall in love with Djuna Barnes, too! I do not try to advance this book's reputation at the expense of her other work. By all means, read "Nightwood" and "Antiphon" - they're not just (to use that mean little phrase) 'minor
masterpieces.' "Ryder," "Antiphon," and "Nightwood" all belong on required reading lists in the English-speaking world. Let's storm the literary canon and place a crown on Djuna Barnes's head, where it richly belongs. Buy this book. In a manner of speaking, ride this book - and just maybe it'll ride you, too. As Roland Barthes would say, why deny yourself the pleasure? I remain...Greg Cameron, Lost and Profound in Surrey, B.C., Canada.
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