Djuna
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Introducing English readers to the speculative fiction of pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings and interventions into internet culture have attracted a cult following in South Korea
The stories brought together in this collection introduce for the first time in English the dazzling speculative imaginings of Djuna, one of South Korea's most provocative SF writers. Whether describing a future society light years away or satirizing Confucian patriarchy,...
2) Ryder
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
3) Nightwood
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.
The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction—there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin...
The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction—there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin...
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"…all Ladies should carry about with them [this almanack], as the Priest his Breviary, as the Cook his Recipes, as the Doctor his Physic, as the Bride her Fears, and as the Lion his Roar!"
Unquestionably unique in its execution of narrative, Djuna Barnes' The Ladies Almanack is an experimental roman à clef that intertwines fiction, myth, and parody into one of the boldest pieces of lesbian literature published in the twentieth century.
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Djuna Barnes, a pesar de ser admirada por autores de la talla de James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Carson McCullers o Anaïs Nin, cayó en el olvido al ser opacada por los hombres de su generación, "la generación perdida". Sin embargo, el paso del tiempo ha puesto de manifiesto no solo su imprescindible contribución a la literatura modernista, sino también al feminismo, la sexualidad y la moralidad de un país cambiante que Barnes tuvo que dejar atrás...
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Español
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Los cuentos de juventud de Djuna Barnes dibujan un mapa hacia la madurez de esta escritora que, con el paso del tiempo, ha sido reconocida como miembro de pleno derecho de la "generación perdida" y admirada por autores como James Joyce, Dylan Thomas o arson McCullers. Estos relatos, publicados en las principales revistas y periódicos neoyorquinos de principios del siglo xx, permiten conocer la bohemia, el origen de la obra de Barnes y entender...
7) Choix karmiques: Comment le fait de prendre les bonnes décisions peut mener à une joie PERMANENTE
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Français
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Laissez entrer plus de satisfaction dans votre vie, tant dans votre carrière et dans vos relations interpersonnelles que dans vos moyens d'expression. Grâce à Choix karstiques, vous pourrez vous défaire des blocages qui vous empêchent d'avancer et vous pourrez ainsi créer une vie productive et excitante que vous aimerez. En vous reliant à votre conscience spirituelle à travers des exercices, des questionnaires et une formule de modèle karmique...
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The self-described "most famous unknown author in the world," Djuna Barnes (1892 - 1982) is increasingly regarded as an important voice of feminism, modernism, and lesbian culture. Best remembered for her 1936 novel Nightwood, Barnes began her career by writing poetry, short stories, and articles for avant-garde literary journals as well as popular magazines. She took the grotesque nature of reality as her recurrent theme, a pessimistic world view...
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Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, 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 Nightwood, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life, after World War II, when...
