![]() Eliot, which is slicker, prettier, and far more available than any of its previous incarnations. This fall, Nightwood has been published in a new edition, prefaced by Jeanette Winterson and T.S. ![]() One has the sense that the reclusive, cranky Barnes would have appreciated this fact. However, it has managed to escape the disastrous good intentions of English teachers, and has never acquired a legend big or gassy enough to dull its impact. Djuna Barnes’ novel, published in 1936, has always inspired fervent admiration, and has sold steadily enough to stay in print (albeit at a fairly small press). It has become nearly impossible to encounter a great book without critical intervention.įortunately, there is Nightwood. In fact, most of the foundational modernist texts are attached to strict critical dogmas, and the knowledge that they have been pre-assigned values and interpretations by The People Who Know These Things does much to discourage or warp individual readers’ relationships with the works themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most contemporary readers are spoon-fed chunks of Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway in their teens by their 20s, they likely know Joyce, Woolf, Pound, and Stein, if only by reputation. ![]()
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