Nightwood :The Original Version and Related Drafts

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Synopsis
The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modern-ist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs in many respects from the book Djuna Barnes actually wrote. Unable to find a publisher for her earlier, more explicit versions, Barnes allowed her friend Emily Coleman and her editor T. S. Eliot to cut much material--ranging from a word to passages 3 pages long---to create a book "suitable" for publication. Barnes scholar Cheryl J. Plumb has studied all surviving versions of the work to re-create the novel Barnes originally intended. The Dalkey Archive edition not only restores to the main text the material Barnes reluctantly allowed to be cut-along with her preferred spelling and punctuation-but also reproduces in facsimile the 70 pages of discarded drafts that survive of earlier versions. The restored teat and related drafts are accompanied by an introduction tracing the novel's composition and by a hundred pages of textual apparatus. Nightwood is the story of Robin Vote and those she destroys: her husband "Baron" Felix Volkbein and their child Guido, and the two women who love her, Nora Flood and Jenny Petherbridge. Commenting on them all is Doctor Matthew O'Connor, whose outlandish monologues elevate their romantic losses to the level of Elizabethan tragedy. Sixty years after its first publication Nightwood is firmly estab-lished as a twentieth-century classic, and this critical edition will allow readers and scholars to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of this work.
Copyright:
1995

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
245 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781564780805
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Author's League Fund, New York, as literary executor of the Estate of Djuna Barnes
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Language Arts
Submitted By:
Worth Trust
Proofread By:
Worth Trust
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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