Djuna: The Life and Times of Djuna Barnes [Hardcover]

Andrew Field (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1983

A major figure on the Paris literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, Djuna Barnes was best known for her experimental novel 'Nightwood', one of the most influential works of modernist fiction. Described by Elizabeth Hardwick of the Times Literary Supplement as "a writer of wild and original gifts, " Barnes was acclaimed by such writers as "Graham Greene, Samuel Beckett, Janet Flanner, Laurence Durrell, Kenneth Burke, Sir Herbert Read, and Dylan Thomas..."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 287 pages
• Publisher: Putnam; 1st edition (1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399127402
• ISBN-13: 978-0399127403
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,924,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Revitalized Djuna Barnes, September 15, 2007

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Irwin H. Moss "Moose" (Los Angeles, Ca. USA) - See all my reviews
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I first read Nightwood in college in 1951; I had never heard of Barnes. Just prior to Nightwood we read The Day of the Locust. I was ready for her, or thought so. Andrew Field has given us a well written fascinating story of this major American writer delving into her history, influences, writing and publication and as much of the inner "her" as might be possible; she remained quite reclusive for the last 40 years of her life in Greenwich Village. Ms Barnes was nothing if not private. Still she strode among the best of our writers in Paris and New York. She doens't flinch, and has low tolerance for those who do. Nightwood is an extraordianry journey into the soul of its author, and many of us. Field helps make her accessable, although I doubt if any one writer could accomplish that.