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 ...

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 ...

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.