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DJUNA BARNES AND T. S. ELIOT: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF NIGHTWOOD(1).

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19980922
Author:FLEISCHER, GEORGETTE

Djuna Barnes had elicited controversy with the publication of 'Nightwood.' The book's initial reception was divided in response to the novel's morality. Barnes had a difficult time producing new work and did not publish until years later. The novel was translated into several foreign languages and languished for critical attention during that period.

The history of Nightwood is an embattled one. Djuna Barnes began the novel emerging from a nine-year relationship with another American expatriate in Paris, the silverpoint artist Thelma Wood, during one of the most peripatetic periods of ...

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