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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force book unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great towns, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna - a world in which the boundaries of class, religious beliefs, and sexuality are striking but incredibly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are a few of the most memorable in all of fiction - there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and kid of an self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then partcipates in some affairs, first with Nora Overflow and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving a vehicle all of her enthusiasts to distraction with her interest for wandering by itself in the night time; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, enthusiastic insights, and unexpected allusions. Barnes's depiction of the characters and their relationships has made the book a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.
