Nightwood
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Nightwood is a landmark of modernist fiction, set against the shadowy bohemian underworld of 1920s Paris and Berlin. Djuna Barnes chronicles the turbulent, obsessive relationships between a cast of expatriate outsiders — most centrally the doomed love of Robin Vote and the women who orbit her destructive pull. The novel presents a world of gender fluidity, erotic longing, and existential despair with a richly poetic and expressionistic prose style that defies conventional narrative. T. S. Eliot, who introduces this edition, argues that the book's distinction lies in its quality of nightmarish intensity and its use of language that achieves the rhythms of dramatic poetry. A cult classic since its first publication in 1936, it remains one of the most original and haunting works in the English literary canon.
Author: Djuna Barnes
Format: Paperback
Published: 1950, Faber Paper Covered Editions
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Nightwood is a landmark of modernist fiction, set against the shadowy bohemian underworld of 1920s Paris and Berlin. Djuna Barnes chronicles the turbulent, obsessive relationships between a cast of expatriate outsiders — most centrally the doomed love of Robin Vote and the women who orbit her destructive pull. The novel presents a world of gender fluidity, erotic longing, and existential despair with a richly poetic and expressionistic prose style that defies conventional narrative. T. S. Eliot, who introduces this edition, argues that the book's distinction lies in its quality of nightmarish intensity and its use of language that achieves the rhythms of dramatic poetry. A cult classic since its first publication in 1936, it remains one of the most original and haunting works in the English literary canon.