Heute habe ich endlich das Buch über die Geschichte des Jazz ausgelesen. Es hat mir schon gefallen, war aber teilweise zu langatmig und teilweise auch irgendwie verwirrend geschrieben. "The Jazz Standards" vom selben Autor hat mir jedenfalls wesentlich besser gefallen.
Am Abend beginne ich dann mit einem sehr dünnen Büchlein, aber immerhin einem amerikanischen Klassiker.
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Djuna BARNES
Nightwood
Description: Djuna Barnes' extraordinary novel, Nightwood, documents the lives of Americans und Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties. Now recognized as a twentieth-century classic, the influence of Djuna Barnes' novel has been, and continues to be, exceptional.
Nightwood is not only a classic of lesbian literature, but was also acknowledged by no less than T. S. Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th century. Eliot admired Djuna Barnes' rich, evocative language. Lesbian readers will admire the exquisite craftsmanship and Barnes' penetrating insights into obsessive passion. Barnes told a friend that Nightwood was written with her own blood "while it was still running." That flowing wound was the breakup of an eight-year relationship with the lesbian love of her life.
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