ENGLISH

Ladies Almanack

By Djuna Barnes

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780814739365
DOI
10.18574/nyu/9780814739365.001.0001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18912771 bytes)
Series
The Cutting Edge; 19
Pages
\138
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 08:09:40

Description

"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."—Library JournalBlending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanac is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Barney herself subsidized its private publication in 1928. Fifty of the 1050 copies of the first edition were hand colored by the author, who was identified only as a lady of Fashion: on the title page.

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