ARGONAUT BOOKS

"Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves." -Eileen Myles "The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy." -T. S. Eliot "Barnes's prose is the only prose by a living writer which can be compared with that of Joyce, and in one point it is superior to his: in its richness in exact and vivid imagery ... A style which is inevitable and inventive at the same time." -Edwin Muir "Djuna Barnes's 1920s and '30s Paris is on the cusp...Read More