5/28/2023 0 Comments Nightwood djunaBut I hope that if I read the book again, I might well learn to love it. I’m still stumped by a “fragment of resuscitation” and there’s plenty more that I think I’m missing. Nightwood takes a bit of fudging and a few mental loops, but it has a kind of charm. Or he is listening and expounding on what he hears and interjecting. I suppose the idea of listening with loquacity is funny, even if her exact meaning is elusive. “With the fury of a fanatic he hunted down his own disqualification, rearticulating the bones of the Imperial Courts long forgotten (those long remembered can alone claim to be long forgotten), listening with an unbecoming loquacity to officials and guardians for fear that his inattention might lose him some fragment of his resuscitation.”īarnes loves contradictions. There are some glorious surprises and descriptions – here’s a description of the first chapter’s main subject, Felix: Just as her outcast characters are trying to shrug off the shackles of early 20th-century society, so Barnes breaks the rules of prose. Barnes throws out the rules of structure, form and even sentence construction – and that’s part of the fascination. We asked for modernism - and boy, did we get it.
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