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Collected Stories by Djuna Barnes

george_salis's review

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The kinds of stories a writer sold to magazines at the time, except Barnes concocts quirkier prose and situations than one might expect, making them a step above the commercial stories in Sylvia Plath’s Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, for instance. Overall, probably only suited to Barnes completionists. I need to stop fooling around and read Nightwood already; the uncensored version, mind you, not the TS Eliot’d one. That is, the Dalkey, not the New Directions edition.
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