Selected Works Of Djuna Barnes
by Djuna Barnes

Name: Selected Works Of Djuna Barnes
Brand: Djuna Barnes
SKU: 9780571193912
Rating: 3.88 (41 reviews)

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Highlights

American

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the stylistic elegance and rich language found in Djuna Barnes' works, especially 'The Antiphon.' Many enjoy the unique and dense metaphors, though some find the narrative a bit challenging or lacking in plot. Overall, this collection is seen as a significant contribution to literature, with specific praises for its content and quality as an edition.

Rich and unique languageStylistically elegantDense metaphorsHigh-quality editionThin plot in some plays

Synopsis

The best writings of one of the great twentieth-century American stylists, whose extraordinary novel Nightwood, about rootless and sexually ambiguous expatriates in Paris between the wars, is a modern classic.

T. S. Eliot praised it for 'the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and the quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy'.

As well as Nightwood this striking volume contains Spillway, a collection of early stories, and the rare and remarkable verse play The Antiphon, completed at the end of Djuna Barnes's life.