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."
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Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一個加拿大朋友看瞭之後,跟我討論這本書。當然,我隻是稍微翻瞭翻Nightwood,並沒有真正讀。——因為太難瞭。 我跟朋友討論的結果是,作者的詞匯量和文筆可真是瞭不得,古今也就她這個一個特色。...
評分Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一個加拿大朋友看瞭之後,跟我討論這本書。當然,我隻是稍微翻瞭翻Nightwood,並沒有真正讀。——因為太難瞭。 我跟朋友討論的結果是,作者的詞匯量和文筆可真是瞭不得,古今也就她這個一個特色。...
評分Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一個加拿大朋友看瞭之後,跟我討論這本書。當然,我隻是稍微翻瞭翻Nightwood,並沒有真正讀。——因為太難瞭。 我跟朋友討論的結果是,作者的詞匯量和文筆可真是瞭不得,古今也就她這個一個特色。...
評分 評分讀懂Nightwood佷難。個人的詞匯、語句結構、知識麵、理解力、想象力等等,都受到極大的挑戰。此外,還有通篇不時齣現的法語。這本書絕對是給高智商有纔情的人讀的。而且還得是readers of poetry. 當然,一旦讀懂這本書,那將是精神世界的無上享受。 Djuna Barnes是一個罕見的優...
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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.
評分語言很漂亮。單純的語言摺磨。
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 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 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.
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