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Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1936
Pages
Pages 180

In the Paris night-world between the wars, a woman drifts between the wife and the lovers who cannot keep her, while a fraudulent doctor delivers the book's great sermons on the dark.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

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