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Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
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Thanks for your review, Paul. It has been inputted above.
Hmm I didn't enjoy the book... my review is maybe not appropriate to share here. Anyway here it is!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
All ratings of reviews are welcome, Zanna. The purpose of this group is not to babysit the books.
Indeed, I just feel it may have been more my fault than the book's. But thank you!
One can learn a great deal from the divide between when popular demand states the fault is the book's and when it is the reader's.
A beautiful book, which I have had the good fortune of recently reading for the first time. That said, I had to reread so much of it to make sense of it - the prose is remarkable both for its style and for its density - that I can almost say that I have reread it. Entire chapters were read more than once, more than twice, because the text demanded it and because my underdeveloped mind had no space for the lessons they contained upon first reading.Brilliant and beautiful.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
"Written in convoluted and poetic language, Nightwood is an obsessive romance illuminating the demonic and destructive aspects of love...Throughout the book, Djuna Barnes interjects monologues from Dr. Matthew O'Connor, a gender-bending character whose words illuminate the storyline and provide a cohesive understanding of the plot..."
(H.D., p. 359)
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