"Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still bevulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mada bewildering hodge-podge of the obscene and the virginal, of satire and wistfulness, of the grossest humor and the most delicate sadnessa book that absolutely baffles classification, but that surely is a most amazing thing to have come from a woman's hand." (The Argonaut)
"A work of grim, mature beauty . . . she has caught life prismatically in a humor that, I dare say, no women, and few men, have succeeded in giving us." (Eugene Jolas, transition)
"Barnes dresses the page, as only she can do, in a remarkably flexible array of words, now Elizabethan, now Biblical in tone, shifting in genre from narrative to poetry to drama to parable. Her ability to control the exuberant interaction of these elements produces a text in which women's voices and that ever-so-tricky business of 'female experience' come to the fore fully on their own terms." (WLW Journal Winter 91)
"Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still bevulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mada bewildering hodge-podge of the obscene and the virginal, of satire and wistfulness, of the grossest humor and the most delicate sadnessa book that absolutely baffles classification, but that surely is a most amazing thing to have come from a woman's hand." (The Argonaut)
"A work of grim, mature beauty . . . she has caught life prismatically in a humor that, I dare say, no women, and few men, have succeeded in giving us." (Eugene Jolas, transition)
"Barnes dresses the page, as only she can do, in a remarkably flexible array of words, now Elizabethan, now Biblical in tone, shifting in genre from narrative to poetry to drama to parable. Her ability to control the exuberant interaction of these elements produces a text in which women's voices and that ever-so-tricky business of 'female experience' come to the fore fully on their own terms." (WLW Journal Winter 91)
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ISBN-13: | 9781628975239 |
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Publisher: | Dalkey Archive Press |
Publication date: | 06/25/2024 |
Series: | Dalkey Archive Essentials |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 250 |
Sales rank: | 223,204 |
File size: | 20 MB |
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