NightwoodThe fiery and enigmatic masterpieceone of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Viennaa world in which the boundaries of class,

but it is also

that he’s a bourgeoise sophisticate nothing like the desperate rebels he portrays

Mathieu Demy

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated

and of certain meetings and chances

we may come to recall this suffering

“beautiful and undecayed like Snow White

now in paperback

but she cancelled at the last minute

In November 1999

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and insiders – not to mention Lynch himself