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NYÖVERSÄTTNING Nattens skogar av Djuna Barnes handlar om natten. Om vad kärlek och åtrå och natten gör med oss. Barnes modernistiska mästerverk utspelar sig i Paris på 1920-talet. Det är här vi möter Nora Flood, Jenny Petherbridge och Matthew O'Co...

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»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, boken bara fortsätter arbeta i dig.« Jeanette Winterson »När jag läser Nattens skogar ...

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Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. 'Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass .....

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»Djuna Barnes imponerades av inget, men fascinerades av allt. Mest av allt var hon en skicklig iakttagare av människor, fra n tonläge och ordval till handlingar.« | Sara Danius, DN Djuna Barnes, en av modernismens stora ikoner, var en mästare i no...

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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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Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. 'Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass .....

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Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic. 'Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass .....

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Famous early works by the influential author include journalism (firsthand account of the force-feeding endured by suffragettes and an interview with James Joyce), poetry ("The Book of Repulsive Women"), and stories ("Smoke").

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, wr...

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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, writ...

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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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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 anthology collects the best poetry published in American magazines in 1920, including works by such luminaries as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. It also includes a yearbook with biographical information on each poet, m...

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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.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale...

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"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously perverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody." Library Journal Blending fiction, myth, and rev...

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This work is a novel in which real persons or actual events figure under disguise. Its subject is the predominantly lesbian social circle centering on Natalie Clifford Barney's salon in Paris in the 1920s. The language, inside jokes and ambiguity ...

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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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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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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 modern...

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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 Jeanette Winters...

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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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Diese Reisegeschichten schrieb Djuna Barnes in den zwanziger Jahren für den New Yorker und andere amerikanische Blätter: Von reisenden Frauen und über das Reisen, das damals nicht nur für die mondäne Avantgarde höchster Ausdruck der Freiheit war, ...

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Klassische Schönheit? Kann sehr stupide sein, wenn man sich außerhalb des Museums befindet. Jugendlichkeit, Natürlichkeit, Weiblichkeit? - Wie langweilig! Und warum, bitte sehr, soll die Liebe eine Zaubermacht sein und Kinder zur Rechtfertigung de...

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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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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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»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, boken bara fortsätter arbeta i dig.« Jeanette Winterson »När jag läser Nattens skogar ...

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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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