Barnes Djuna
Barnes Djuna - I Am Alien To Life Selected Stories - Paperback
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Description: The best of Djuna Barnes's dark droll incisive short fiction spanning her all - too - brief career edited and introduced by Merve Emre. Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature championed by T. S. Eliot and one of the first strangest and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before Nightwood however with journalism essays drama and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life after World War II when she published nothing more it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise. Here are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve in the versions she preferred as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and New Yorker contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women tragique and triste and tremendous all at once of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword Barnes's themes are love and death especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts her characters may be alien to life but they are alive spectacularly grotesquely alive.
Title: I Am Alien To Life Selected Stories
Author(s): Barnes Djuna
Publisher: Mcnally Editions
Barcode: 9781961341227
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Series: McNally Editions
Category: Short Stories
Description: The best of Djuna Barnes's dark droll incisive short fiction spanning her all - too - brief career edited and introduced by Merve Emre. Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature championed by T. S. Eliot and one of the first strangest and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before Nightwood however with journalism essays drama and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life after World War II when she published nothing more it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise. Here are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve in the versions she preferred as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and New Yorker contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women tragique and triste and tremendous all at once of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword Barnes's themes are love and death especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts her characters may be alien to life but they are alive spectacularly grotesquely alive.
Title: I Am Alien To Life Selected Stories
Author(s): Barnes Djuna
Publisher: Mcnally Editions
Barcode: 9781961341227
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Series: McNally Editions
Category: Short Stories
