Ryder

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"The most amazing book ever written by a woman" is how the Saturday Review responded in 1928 to Djuna Barnes's extraordinary first novel, a bawdy mock-Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own. In this satire on masculinity and domesticity, Barnes works in a variety of forms—poems, plays, parables—and a prose style that echoes Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. The exuberance of the prose, however, is Julie Ryder's way of deriding the father she hates, the polygamous Wendell Ryder, and this novel remains one of the first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression in modern literature. For this new edition, several of Barnes's previously suppressed illustrations have been restored, and novelist Paul West has contributed a perceptive afterword.
"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—a bewildering hodge-podge of the obscene... Tovább

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"The most amazing book ever written by a woman" is how the Saturday Review responded in 1928 to Djuna Barnes's extraordinary first novel, a bawdy mock-Elizabethan chronicle of a family very much like her own. In this satire on masculinity and domesticity, Barnes works in a variety of forms—poems, plays, parables—and a prose style that echoes Chaucer, Shakespeare, the Bible, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. The exuberance of the prose, however, is Julie Ryder's way of deriding the father she hates, the polygamous Wendell Ryder, and this novel remains one of the first and best denunciations of patriarchal repression in modern literature. For this new edition, several of Barnes's previously suppressed illustrations have been restored, and novelist Paul West has contributed a perceptive afterword.
"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—a bewildering hodge-podge of the obscene and the virginal, of satire and wistfulness, of the grossest humor and the most delicate sadness—a book that absolutely baffles classification, but that surely is a most amazing thing to have come from a woman's hand." —The Argonaut
"A work of grim, mature beauty She has caught life prismatically in a humor that, I dare say, no women, and few men, have succeeded in giving us." —Eugene Jolas, transition
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known as the author of Nightwood, one of the finest novels of the modernist period. She published works in virtually every genre: short stories, poetry, journalism, drama, and pastiche, often illustrated with her own drawings. A notorious figure in the 1920s and 1930s, she became a recluse in her later years and was largely forgotten. But since her death, a major biography and several critical studies have established her importance in 20th century literature. Vissza