{"title":"Djuna Barnes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDjuna Barnes\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers a distinctive blend of literary artistry and innovation. Her works, including titles like \u003cem\u003eI Am Alien to Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRyder\u003c\/em\u003e, explore complex characters and unconventional narratives, appealing to those who appreciate experimental and poetic fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom sharp social observations to explorations of identity and human experience, Barnes's writing challenges and rewards in equal measure. Her unique voice remains influential in both general fiction and beyond, inviting readers into a world of rich, imaginative storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ryder-by-djuna-barnes-9781628974980","title":"Ryder","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours and pastiche, cult author Djuna Barnes spins an audacious, intricate story of sexuality, power, and praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyder\u003c\/i\u003e, like its namesake, Wendell Ryder, is many things - lyric, prose, fable, illustration; protagonist, bastard, bohemian, polygamist. Born in the 1800s to infamous nonconformist Sophia Grieve Ryder, Wendell's search for identity takes him from Connecticut to England to multifarious digressions on morality, tradition, and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCensored upon its first release in 1928, \u003ci\u003eRyder\u003c\/i\u003e's portrayal of sexuality remains revolutionary despite the passing of time and the expurgations in the text, preserved by Barnes in protest of the war 'blindly raged against the written word'. The weight of Wendell's story endures despite this censorship, as his drive to assume the masculine roles of patriarch and protector comes at the sacrifice of the women around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA vanguard modernist, Djuna Barnes has been called the patron literary saint of Bohemia, and her second novel, \u003ci\u003eRyder\u003c\/i\u003e, evinces her cutting wit and originality. The nonlinear structure and polyphonic narration pull the reader into Barnes' harlequin world like a riptide, echoing the melodic cascade of James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and the avant-garde feminism of Dorothy Richardson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is a rhapsodic saga that could have come only from Barnes' pen - and politics - as impactful today as upon its first pressing, a document of sexual revolution and censorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46714413351148,"sku":"9781628974980","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27168873482767.jpg?v=1754355461"},{"product_id":"ladies-almanack-by-djuna-barnes-9781628975581","title":"Ladies Almanack","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody\" by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eNightwood.\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNearly 100 years after its original 1928 publication sent shockwaves through the literary scene, \u003ci\u003eLadies Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e reigns as a brilliant modernist composition and one of the most audacious lesbian texts of the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. At once a scathing social satire and a love letter to the wealthy expatriates of Paris high society, the book delights in its cast of characters, who are clear analogues to Barnes' lesbian literary contemporaries—and the book's first readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArranged by month and written in a pastiche of Restoration literature, \u003ci\u003eLadies Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e records the life and lovers of Dame Evangeline Musset, a pseudonymous stand-in for Natalie Clifford Barney. Accompanied for the first time by Barnes' original Elizabethan-style woodcut illustrations, this new edition also features a sharp, impassioned introduction by Sarah Schulman reflecting on the ways in which lesbian lives have changed—and haven't—since the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter decades out of print, Dalkey Archive is proud to revive the \u003ci\u003eLadies Almanack\u003c\/i\u003e for contemporary readers: a classic that delivers all the salacious drama of \u003ci\u003eThe L Word\u003c\/i\u003e with the literary wit and wordplay of Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455611388140,"sku":"9781628975581","price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81vydwXJn0L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774787604"},{"product_id":"i-am-alien-to-life-by-djuna-barnes-9781961341227","title":"I Am Alien to Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe best of Djuna Barnes's dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDjuna Barnes is rightly remembered for \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e, her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women \"\u003ci\u003etragique\u003c\/i\u003e\" and \"\u003ci\u003etriste\u003c\/i\u003e\" and \"\u003ci\u003etremendous\u003c\/i\u003e\" all at once, of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life, monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. 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