Nightwood John W. Boudreau The Business Times“Fear of Writing

The Business Times“Fear of Writing is an urgent and courageous piece of work

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Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence - questions about love and faith

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Nightwood John W. Boudreau The Business Times“Fear of WritingNightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Viennaa world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some