Ryder (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
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Book Overview
From the author of Nightwood, 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.Told as through a kaleidoscope,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0916583554
ISBN13:9780916583552
Release Date:May 1990
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.93 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.8" x 6.1"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
an astonishing writer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
It wasn't only T.S. Eliot who described Djuna Barnes's style as Elizabethan. (Though the poet Marie Ponsot has described her as Jacobean.) What period could encompass this twentieth century writer's talent for casting spells both psychological and atmospheric? I've never read anyone quite like her. If only James Joyce had been a little more talented, he might have been Barnesian--but few of us know this; join us!
A Great Achievement
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is an amazing work. A mostly autobiographical parody, Barnes uses Ryder as sort of a twisted extended metaphor for the rest of the world. The beautiful and inventive prose, though often obscure, illustrates the life of the Ryder family poignantly and indignantly. Written in various styles, the book is bound to touch each and every reader.
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