![]() If I could live anywhere else in the world it would be Paris. I went there in 2010 with my partner for our 5 th anniversary. We’re told events takes place in Paris but Barnes never success in taking me there or making the city alive to me. I got no sense of that at all from any of Barnes’s rich, vivid descriptions. The sad fact is, once you strip away the dense, rich prose, the novel becomes little more than a skeleton picked clean of flesh. 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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