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''Nightwood'' is a 1936 novel by Djuna Barnes first published in London by Faber and Faber. ''Nightwood'' is one of the earliest prominent novels to portray explicit homosexuality, and can be considered gay literature.〔Austen, p. 82〕〔Young, p. 153.〕 It is also notable for its intense, gothic prose style.〔 The novel employs modernist techniques such as its unusual form or narrative and can be considered metafiction, and it was praised by other modernist authors including T. S. Eliot, who wrote an introduction included in the 1937 edition published by Harcourt, Brace. Eliot wrote in his introduction that "... it is so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." As a ''roman à clef'', the novel features a thinly veiled portrait of Barnes in the character of Nora Flood, whereas Nora’s lover Robin Vote is a composite of Thelma Wood and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.〔Gammel, p. 357.〕 ==Conception== Author Charles Henri Ford typed an early version of the manuscript for Barnes during the summer of 1932, and it took Barnes several years to find a publisher. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nightwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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