Nightwood (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Djuna Barnes
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Satire, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Values, France or French people, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Betrayal, Doctors, Paris, 1920’s, 1930’s, Obsession, Lesbianism or lesbians, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Circuses or carnivals, Austria or Austrians
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Vienna, Austria
Nightwood is Barnes's most important work and the one most frequently read and discussed. Although it has a reputation as a difficult novel, it has been widely and enthusiastically admired by important literary figures, most notably perhaps Eliot, who was instrumental in securing its publication, and the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The primary focus in Nightwood is not plot but rather psychology, in that the narrative focuses upon the emotional reactions of its characters and their responses to Robin Vote. The novel's prose is dense and richly metaphorical, and two of its...
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