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Nightwood is a 1936 novel by American author Djuna Barnes that was first published by publishing house Faber and Faber. It is one of the early prominent novels to portray explicit homosexuality between women, and as such can be considered lesbian literature. [1] [2] It is also notable for its intense, gothic prose style. [2] .
When they get there, they see a beautiful woman unconscious on a couch, surrounded by plants. The woman herself exudes a fungus-like smell and seems to fit in with the plants around her. Matthew, nervous that the police will come and find out he’s unlicensed, quickly douses the woman with water.
Nightwood. Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot (Introduction), Jeanette Winterson (Preface) 3.61. 13,086 ratings1,577 reviews. 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).
Learn about Djuna Barnes's semi-autobiographical novel Nightwood, a modernist masterpiece that explores themes of sexuality, identity, and feminism. Find summaries, analysis, quotes, characters, symbols, and more in this comprehensive study guide.
Nightwood is a novel of sexual and moral degeneration, set in the decadent shadows of Europe between the two World Wars. It features a cast of memorable characters, such as the Wandering Jew, the American expatriate, and the transvestite gynecologist, and a stylistic innovation that impressed T. S. Eliot and Jeanette Winterson.
Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood is full of characters who seem to want to be something other than what they are—a circus full of people who adopt false titles (such as Duchess or Prince), mysteriously wealthy characters who claim to be counts or barons, and even a lonely older woman who decorates her home with stolen objects to cover up her own unremar...
Nightwood. Djuna Barnes. New Directions Publishing, 2006 - Fiction - 182 pages. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow...
