Ladies Almanack (American Literature) - Softcover

Barnes, Djuna; Djuna, Bames

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916583880 ISBN 13: 9780916583880

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press, 2015

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Críticas:

As an 'Almanack, ' the book celebrates the uniqueness of women . . . extolling their society with separatist sentiment not violent or radical so much as mirthful and delightful.

[I]f you are able to contain your cackling long enough to consider the truth underlying the jest, you will come away with an understanding of the dilemmas facing lesbians at the opening of the century. You'll find that they are not much different from the questions we grapple with today. --Lambda Book Report

Djuna Barnes remains a reminder of the Road Not Yet Taken international, devious, perverse, verbally abundant, psychologically subtle. --Edmund White

"Barnes... spoofed the gay and not so gay times of her circle in Ladies Almanack, but if she was able to lampoon it... then she was also able to celebrate it." --Jeanette Winterson

Reseña del editor:

Barnes's affectionate lampoon of the expatriate lesbian community in Paris was privately printed in 1928. Arranged by month, it records the life and loves of Dame Evangeline Musset (modeled after salon hostess Natalie Barney) in a robust style taken from Shakespeare and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, and is illustrated throughout with Barnes's own drawings.

This new edition is a facsimile of the 1928 edition with the addition of an afterword providing details on the book's origins and a key to its real-life models.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0916583880
• ISBN 13: 9780916583880
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140