An edition of Nightwood (1936)

Nightwood

the original version and related drafts

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An edition of Nightwood (1936)

Nightwood

the original version and related drafts

  • 3.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 64 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs in many respects from the book Djuna Barnes actually wrote. Unable to find a publisher for her earlier, more explicit versions, Barnes allowed her friend Emily Coleman and her editor T. S. Eliot to cut much material - ranging from a word to passages 3 pages long - to create a book "suitable" for publication. Barnes scholar Cheryl J.

Plumb has studied all surviving versions of the work to re-create the novel Barnes originally intended. The Dalkey Archive edition not only restores to the main text the material Barnes reluctantly allowed to be cut - along with her preferred spelling and punctuation - but also reproduces in facsimile the 70 pages of discarded drafts that survive of earlier versions.

The restored text and related drafts are accompanied by an introduction tracing the novel's composition and by a hundred pages of textual apparatus.

Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband "Baron" Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge. Commenting on them all is Doctor Matthew O'Connor, whose outlandish monologues elevate their romantic losses to the level of Elizabethan tragedy.

Sixty years after its first publication Nightwood is firmly established as a twentieth-century classic, and this critical edition will allow readers and scholars to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this unforgettable work.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
319

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Cover of: Nightwood
Nightwood
September 26, 2006, New Directions
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: El Bosque De LA Noche
El Bosque De LA Noche
January 1, 1997, Planeta Pub Corp
Paperback
Cover of: Nightwood
Nightwood: the original version and related drafts
1995, Dalkey Archive Press
in English
Cover of: Nachtgewächs
Nachtgewächs: Roman
1984, Suhrkamp
in German - 13. - 14. Tsd.
Cover of: Nightwood
Nightwood
June 1961, New Directions Publishing Corporation
Paperback in English
Cover of: Nightwood
Nightwood
1961, New Directions

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Normal, IL

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3503.A614 N5 1995, PS3503.A614N5 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvi, 319 p. :
Number of pages
319

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1111152M
Internet Archive
nightwoodorigina0000barn
ISBN 10
1564780805
LCCN
94036949
OCLC/WorldCat
31288503
Library Thing
12916
Goodreads
53103

Work Description

"At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote - a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood. But Nora cannot contain Robin, either, and Robin in turn deserts her for the larcenous Jenny Petherbridge.

Rich in irony and symbolism, Nightwood depicts the all-consuming power of erotic obsession in language that twists and turns, drawing the reader into a labyrinth of meaning and revelation. This edition also includes T. S. Eliot's Introduction to the 1937 American edition."--BOOK JACKET.

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