![]() ![]() I felt like Barnes took it upon herself to describe the characters and setting in rich details and forgot a tiny little thing called plot. There’s just not much else going on apart from pretty words and descriptions. I read a lot of references online about Nightwood’s dense prose. I gave Barnes a little round of applause for that one. The only thing I enjoyed about Nightwood is the fact it deals with homosexuality. I really don’t get what all the hype is about. Nightwood is proper ‘literary’ fiction and it just wasn’t to my taste. I’m glad it’s such a short novella or reading it would have been even more painful. I just couldn’t get along with this one at all. ![]() Nightwood is my book group read this month. As such, it influence has been – and continues to be – exceptional. The novel’s rich, evocative language, exquisite crafmanship and penetrating insight into obsessive passion have made it a classic of 20 th century literature. Djuana Barnes’s extraordinary novel, Nightwood, documents the lives of American’s and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties. ![]()
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