Djuna Barnes

"Now this be a Tale of as fine a Wench as ever wet Bed . . . Thus begins this Almanack, which all Ladies should carry about with them, 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!"

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 ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' Jeanette Winterson'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... The story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.' Siri HustvedtNightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.' Andre Aciman'The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.' T. S. Eliot'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.' William S. Burroughs'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of Nightwood, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' Elizabeth Hardwick

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; Avsägelsen; Oscar; Modern; Vandringstrastens holk; En farlig flickas dagbok; Negern; Madame blir till åren - dagboksföring i farlig ålder; Dusie; Duell utan sekundanter; Brevet som aldrig postades; Den första april; Det perfekta mordet; Bakom hjärtat; Saturnalia; Hattmakaren. Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) var verksam i precis alla genrer – hon skrev romaner, noveller, dikter, pjäser, journalistik. Hon var queerfeminist innan ordet fanns och själva urtypen för en modernist. Mest känd är hon för den omåttligt inflytelserika lesbiska avantgarderomanen Nattens skogar. Under decennier tillhörde hon de legendariska amerikanska författarkretsarna i Paris runt Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T S Eliot, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway och andra. Från 1940-talet och framåt levde hon tillbakadraget i en mycket liten lägenhet i Greenwich Village i New York – alltjämt på kant med tillvaron, alltjämt lika vass i pennan. Recension: ”Kan man vara hämndlysten för att man är passionerat underlägsen och är det möjligt att älska såsom man älskar när man samtidigt måste hinna med ett tåg? Ja, i Djuna Barnes prosa är allt möjligt, vilket läsaren av novellsamlingen ”En farlig flickas dagbok” blir varse…” ”Bokens nitton noveller är alla omisskännligt Barneska; de är befriade från minsta doft av diskbänksrealism eller nyans av vardagsgrått och i beskrivningarna av miljöer eller personers utseende råder en ibland nästan miniatyrliknande exakthet och detaljskärpa.” Paulina Helgeson, SvD

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 ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' Jeanette Winterson'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... The story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.' Siri HustvedtNightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.' Andre Aciman'The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.' T. S. Eliot'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.' William S. Burroughs'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of Nightwood, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' Elizabeth Hardwick

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. Many of the poems in "The Book of Repulsive Women" first appeared in pamphlets and literary journals in New York and Paris. Published together for the first time, they throw new light on Barnes' development as a writer. The book reveals her as a poet of unique power, at once compelling and disorientating. Marianne Moore observed, "reading Djuna Barnes is like reading a foreign language, which you understand". "The Book of Repulsive Women" includes previously unpublished and uncollected poems, and five illustrations by Barnes herself. Rebecca Loncraine provides an introduction to Barnes' poetry.

Schauplätze sind die flirrenden Hauptstädte Europas, vor allem Paris in den 1920er Jahren, und New York. Die fünf neurotischen Hauptfiguren - die lesbischen Amerikanerinnen Robin, Nora und Jenny, der schwule irisch-amerikanische Arzt Matthew O'Connor und der österreichische Pseudobaron Felix Volkbein - sind durch Herkunft und Veranlagung dem >>normalen