The Lydia Steptoe Stories (ePub)
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'
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Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'
In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.
A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'
Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
Brooklyn Eagle. In 1921 she moved to Paris, where she lived for almost twenty years and wrote for such publications as
Vanity Fair and
The New Yorker.
Nightwood, written in 1936, was her second novel. It is now considered a masterpiece, praised by T. S. Eliot for its 'great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy'. Her other works include
A Book, a collection of short stories, poems and one-act plays; a satirical novel,
Ladies Almanack; and a verse play,
The Antiphon. She died in New York in 1982.
- Autor: Djuna Barnes
- 2019, Main, 48 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 057135467X
- ISBN-13: 9780571354672
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2019
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