The Antiphon

Name: The Antiphon
Author: Djuna Barnes

by Djuna Barnes

Dramatic verse play about violence, redemption, and familial conflict

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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.

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