The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. "Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ("TLS"). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction--there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person--a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature. Most striking of all is Barnes' 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." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, "Nightwood" still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.
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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 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...
評分 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。...
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大傢都是暗夜裏的伍德。隻不過大傢的夜林都不一樣罷瞭,所以沒有人能理解對方,沒有人的夜林能重閤,甚至有任何相交。
評分無聊,虧得艾略特還大力推崇,無語。
評分這個寫的還是有些厲害的,是要多讀幾遍纔能體會的 - 然後纔能承認,naturalism捨棄的好, spatial form不得不用
評分"Have you ever loved someone, and it became yourself?"
評分這個寫的還是有些厲害的,是要多讀幾遍纔能體會的 - 然後纔能承認,naturalism捨棄的好, spatial form不得不用
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