Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate. Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood made her reputation, and with good reason.

A book too daring for its time became an essential classic. Nightwood redefined love, identity, and modernist fiction with haunting prose and unforgettable characters., Features News - Times Now ...

Djuna Barnes, 1922. Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood made her reputation, and with good reason. Reading the novel for the first time is an initiation into the ambivalent splendor of language ...