The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. "Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ("TLS"). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction--there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person--a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature. Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, "Nightwood" still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.
Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一个加拿大朋友看了之后,跟我讨论这本书。当然,我只是稍微翻了翻Nightwood,并没有真正读。——因为太难了。 我跟朋友讨论的结果是,作者的词汇量和文笔可真是了不得,古今也就她这个一个特色。...
评分 评分Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一个加拿大朋友看了之后,跟我讨论这本书。当然,我只是稍微翻了翻Nightwood,并没有真正读。——因为太难了。 我跟朋友讨论的结果是,作者的词汇量和文笔可真是了不得,古今也就她这个一个特色。...
评分Well, I was wrong. This book is not really that good as I claimed before。 一个加拿大朋友看了之后,跟我讨论这本书。当然,我只是稍微翻了翻Nightwood,并没有真正读。——因为太难了。 我跟朋友讨论的结果是,作者的词汇量和文笔可真是了不得,古今也就她这个一个特色。...
评分prefaced by Jeanette Winterson
评分大家都是暗夜里的伍德。只不过大家的夜林都不一样罢了,所以没有人能理解对方,没有人的夜林能重合,甚至有任何相交。
评分挺晦涩的,最后一章把人惊到
评分无聊,亏得艾略特还大力推崇,无语。
评分TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT THE NIGHT. 读完就直接开始重读 - Nightwood reads INTO you. 沉睡的人没有时间又拥有一切时间,过去和未来,白天和黑夜,爱,死亡,停止狗吠,梦里一同轰然倒下。
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