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I Am Alien to Life

By Djuna Barnes

I Am Alien to Life Books

I Am Alien to Life

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The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-pief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre. Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her peakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most pilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes’s career began long before Nightwood, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life, after World War II, when she published nothing more, it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise. Here are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve, in the versions she preferred, as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and New Yorker contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women “‘tragique’ and ‘triste’ and ‘tremendous’ all at once,” of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life, monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword, “[Barnes’s] themes are love and death, especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts . . . her characters may be alien to life, but they are alive—spectacularly, grotesquely alive.”
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2024-10-08
Publication Date:
2024-10-08
Publisher:
McNally Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1961341220
ISBN13:
9781961341227
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
318 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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