Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes was a modernist iconoclast whose novel Nightwood, admired by T.S. Eliot, is a dreamlike masterpiece of queer bohemian life in interwar Europe. Her baroque, poetic prose style is wholly unique in American literature.
Works
- NightwoodExperimental novel exploring decadence and desire in the Paris underworld
- RyderSprawling picaresque novel tracing an antihero's sexual and social misadventures
- Ladies AlmanackWitty satirical illustrated book celebrating lesbian bohemian life in Paris
- SpillwayCollection of short stories and sketches exploring themes of identity and loss
- The AntiphonDramatic verse play about violence, redemption, and familial conflict
- A Book