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SELECTED WORKS OF DJUNA BARNES (366 pp.)-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($5.95).
Djuna Barnes has long been the dark lady of the New Directions anthologies, and in the '30s, when difficult writers were in vogue, her shadowy short novel Nightwood won the loftiest of testimonials. Every earnest Lit. undergraduate read the New Classics edition, with its foreword by T. S. Eliot...
As the centerpiece of this collection of Djuna Barnes' work, Nightwood still has its moments of beauty and wild wit. The novel's chief strength is a marvelous ranter, "Dr. Matthew-Mighty grain-of-salt-Dante-O'Connor." He roars on for pages, mocking himself as a...
But one moonstruck liar in a life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have...
His jaw muscles working nervously as he paused in midsentence to grope for words, Walker assailed, as being soft on Communism, a whole Who's Who in America: Dwight Eisenhower, Eleanor Roosevelt, Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester, USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, Commentators Walter Cronkite Eric Sevareid, Writers John...