{"product_id":"9781961341227","title":"I Am Alien to Life","description":"Author: Djuna Barnes\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781961341227\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Jan 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe best of Djuna Barnes's dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-pief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDjuna Barnes is rightly remembered for \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e, her peakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most pilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life, after World War II, when she published nothing more, it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve, in the versions she preferred, as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women '\"\u003ci\u003etragique\"\u003c\/i\u003e and \"\u003ci\u003etriste\" \u003c\/i\u003eand \"tremendous\" all at once', of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life, monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword, '[Barnes's] themes are love and death, especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts...her characters may be alien to life, but they are alive  spectacularly, grotesquely alive.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875648819358,"sku":"ADS-9781961341227","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781961341227.jpg?v=1779754657","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781961341227","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}