Djuna: The Formidable Miss Barnes
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Book: Fair
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Pages: Good
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A richly detailed literary biography, Andrew Field's work chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent life of Djuna Barnes, one of the most singular and unconventional figures of twentieth-century American modernism. Field uncovers the full arc of Barnes's life — from her deeply troubled childhood in rural New York to her celebrated years among the expatriate avant-garde in Paris, where she moved in the same circles as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Natalie Barney. With unflinching candor, the biography illuminates the personal anguish and fierce independence that shaped Barnes's groundbreaking works, most notably her cult masterpiece Nightwood, while also detailing her long, reclusive final decades in Greenwich Village. Field writes with the authority of a scholar who conducted extensive interviews with Barnes herself, lending the narrative an intimacy and immediacy that sets it apart from purely academic treatments. The result is a portrait both admiring and clear-eyed — a testament to a formidable artist who refused, on every front, to be ordinary.
Author: Andrew Field
Format: Paperback
Published: 1985, University of Texas Press, Austin
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A richly detailed literary biography, Andrew Field's work chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent life of Djuna Barnes, one of the most singular and unconventional figures of twentieth-century American modernism. Field uncovers the full arc of Barnes's life — from her deeply troubled childhood in rural New York to her celebrated years among the expatriate avant-garde in Paris, where she moved in the same circles as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Natalie Barney. With unflinching candor, the biography illuminates the personal anguish and fierce independence that shaped Barnes's groundbreaking works, most notably her cult masterpiece Nightwood, while also detailing her long, reclusive final decades in Greenwich Village. Field writes with the authority of a scholar who conducted extensive interviews with Barnes herself, lending the narrative an intimacy and immediacy that sets it apart from purely academic treatments. The result is a portrait both admiring and clear-eyed — a testament to a formidable artist who refused, on every front, to be ordinary.