I Am Alien to Life - Djuna Barnes

The best of Djuna BarnesÂ’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. BarnesÂ’s career began long before Nightwood, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire... Zobrazit více