Yazar: Djuna Barnes

The self-described "most famous unknown author in the world, " Djuna Barnes (1892 – 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice of feminism, modernism, and lesbian culture. Best …

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 …

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 …

‘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 Journa …

Collection of famous short stories Contents A night among the horses — Three from the earth — The valet — To the dogs — Beyond the end — Pastoral — Oscar — Antique — Katrina Silverstaff …

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece—one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de force, ‘belongs to that small class of books that somehow re …

Little-known literary works by Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and more: ‘;[An] extraordinary collection of inexplicably forgotten treasures.’ New York magazine Radical Shadows collects lost, …

Djuna Barnes, a pesar de ser admirada por autores de la talla de James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Carson Mc Cullers o Anaïs Nin,   cayó en el olvido al ser opacada por los hombres de su generación, ‘la …

Los cuentos de juventud de Djuna Barnes dibujan un mapa hacia la madurez de esta escritora que, con el paso del tiempo, ha sido reconocida como miembro de pleno derecho de la ‘generación perdida’ y …

“…all Ladies should carry about with them [this almanack], as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and as the Lion his Roar!” Unquesti …

This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.   Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes’s debut novel …

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 …