Böcker av Djuna Barnes

»Oförglömlig berättelse om två kvinnors kärlek och lidande. Att läsa den är som att dricka vin och se en pärla upplösas i glaset. Du har tagit in mer än du vet, verket bara fortsätter arbeta i dig.« | Jeanette Winterson »Så bra att endast den som ...

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»Djuna Barnes imponerades av inget, men fascinerades av allt. Mest av allt var hon en skicklig iakttagare av människor, fran tonläge och ordval till handlingar.« | Sara Danius, DN Djuna Barnes, en av modernismens stora ikoner, var en mästare i nov...

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Nightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. One of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influ...

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Nightwood is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written...

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Kultförklarade Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) novellsamling En farlig flickas dagbok i översättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Boken innehåller 19 noveller som aldrig utkommit på svenska tidigare: Den herrelösa märren; Indiansommar; Finalen; ...

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The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. <BR>"Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an ep...

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'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, ...

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»Djuna Barnes imponerades av inget, men fascinerades av allt. Mest av allt var hon en skicklig iakttagare av människor, fran tonläge och ordval till handlingar.« | Sara Danius, DN Djuna Barnes, en av modernismens stora ikoner, var en mästare i nov...

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Nightwood is not only a classic of modernist literature, but was also acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written...

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The poems in Djuna Barnes first work, exude the worldliness and sensuality that permeates all her work. They are also some of the most forthright poetic explorations of lesbianism to have appeared in the early part of the twentieth century.

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The self-described "e;most famous unknown author in the world,"e; Djuna Barnes (1892 - 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice of feminism, modernism, and lesbian culture. Best remembered for her 1936 novel Nightwood, Barnes b...

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Djuna Barnes' novel documents the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties.

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'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, w...

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"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 Journal Blending fiction, myth, and revisiona...

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From the author of Nightwood Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad. Argonaut

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Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style tak...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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2016 Reprint of 1928 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Carrying the longish title of "Ladies Almanack: showing their signs and their tides; their moons and their changes the sea...

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Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s....

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Djuna Barnes wrote her "Ladies Almanack" for fun, a 'slight satiric wigging', as she called it in her Foreword, to amuse her circle of expatriate friends with the tale of Evangeline Musset who took her whip in hand and 'set out upon the ...

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Drama. Djuna Barnes's great verse drama, written, in part, about her own family, was first published in 1958, and was last reprinted in her SELECTED WRITINGS of 1962. Since that time the play has been out of print. The play certainly is a strange ...

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Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) gehört zu den größten amerikanischen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nightwood ist ihr wichtigstes Buch, ein Klassiker der Moderne par excellence. Der Roman, erschienen 1936, wird neu, mit einem Nachwort von N.N., vorgelegt....

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»Robin ist das Nachtgewächs, die Schlingpflanze und die Nymphe. Ihr Leben ist Zufall in Permanenz Weil ich eine Frau bin, die von Gott vergessen wurde. Das Nachtgewächs ist ein Bekenntnis der Inzucht von Gefühlen. Man muß den Extrakt dieser Pfla...

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Acht Portraits von selbstständigen, selbstbewussten und unabhängigen Frauen, die »leichter eine Gewohnheit durchbrechen, als eine annehmen«. Aus den New Yorker und den Pariser Portraits der Djuna Barnes sind hier acht Portraits von ungewöhnlichen ...

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Diese Reisegeschichten schrieb Djuna Barnes in den zwanziger Jahren fu?r den New Yorker und andere amerikanische Blätter: Von reisenden Frauen und u?ber das Reisen, das damals nicht nur fu?r die mondäne Avantgarde höchster Ausdruck ...

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Bösartige, witzige, komische, tragische, wüste, milde Portraits von Damen und Herren und ihren exzentrischen Leidenschaften, von Briefen, die nie abgeschickt werden, Duellen ohne Sekundanten, von überflüssigen Heiraten und eine...

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