The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-pief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her peakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most pilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes’s career began long before Nightwood, howe...

Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.' Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' Jeanette Winterson'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become '...

Toward dusk, in the Summer of the year, a man dressed in a frock coat and top hat, and carrying a cane, crept through the underbrush bordering the corral of the Buckler farm. As he moved, small twigs snapped, fell and were silent. His knees were green from wounded shrubbery and grass, and his outspread hands tore unheeded plants. His wrists hurt him and he rested from time to time, always caring for his hat and knotted yellow cane, blowing through his moustache. Dew had been falling, cover...

A “striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody” by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. **(—**Library Journal)Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody, Ladies Almanack is a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy Paris expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems...

Djuna Barnes, a pesar de ser admirada por autores de la talla de James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Carson McCullers o Anaïs Nin, cayó en el olvido al ser opacada por los hombres de su generación, "la generación perdida". Sin embargo, el paso del tiempo ha puesto de manifiesto no solo su imprescindible contribución a la literatura modernista, sino también al feminismo, la sexualidad y la moralidad de un país cambiante que Barnes tuvo que dejar atrás para lograr la ...

Los cuentos de juventud de Djuna Barnes dibujan un mapa hacia la madurez de esta escritora que, con el paso del tiempo, ha sido reconocida como miembro de pleno derecho de la "generación perdida" y admirada por autores como James Joyce, Dylan Thomas o arson McCullers. Estos relatos, publicados en las principales revistas y periódicos neoyorquinos de principios del siglo xx, permiten conocer la bohemia, el origen de la obra de Barnes y entender la posición...

Escrito como um calendário medieval, O almanaque das Mulheres é uma paródia astuta sobre o excêntrico círculo sáfico de Natalie Barney e sua Académie des Femmes. Perspicaz, mordaz, engenhoso e transgressor, é também um texto moderno e precursor na sua visão do lesbianismo e das questões que envolvem as relações entre mulheres. A endogamia afetiva, o travestismo, a maternidade, o casamento ou as diferenças entre sexo e género já são abordados em Almanaque com uma carga de ironia e acidez po...

"A Book" is a mix of short stories, poetry, plays, and illustrations, reflecting Barnes' experimental and eclectic approach to writing. The pieces vary in tone, from humorous and satirical to dark and introspective. The collection is often seen as a precursor to her later, more fully developed works, where themes of isolation, identity, and human relationships are more deeply explored.The writings in "A Book" display Barnes' unique voice—one that blends modernist experimentation with Gothi...

"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."-Library JournalBlending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy exp...

Nachtwoud speelt zich af in Parijs, Berlijn en Wenen tijdens de decadente periode tussen de twee wereldoorlogen en 'behoort tot die kleine groep boeken die op de een of andere manier een tijdperk weerspiegelen', aldus de Times Literary Supplement. In Nachtwoud vertelt Djuna Barnes de verhalen van een groep Amerikaanse expats en Europeanen in het Parijs van de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw. Barnes vertelde zelf dat Nachtwoud was geschreven met haar eigen bloed 'terwijl het nog stroomde'....

Mit ihren Erzählungen entwickelte sich Djuna Barnes in den zwanziger Jahren schnell zu einer provozierend exzentrischen Autorin. In ihren witzigen, tragikomischen und mitunter bösartigen Portraits von Frauen und Männern und ihren außergewöhnlichen Leidenschaften dreht sich letztlich immer alles um die Liebe und die Einsamkeit. Hinreißende Geschichten von einer Herrin und ihrem Stallknecht, von Briefen, die nicht abgeschickt werden, von Duellen ohne Sekundanten und von einem Pfau in grüner ...