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Ryder

Pocket
Engelsk
Dalkey Archive Essentials
Ryder
Ryder
  • Forfatter: Djuna Barnes
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 250
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Dalkey Archive Essentials
  • EAN: 9781628974980
  • Utgivelsesår: 2024
  • Bidragsyter: Barnes, Djuna
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From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.

Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling detours and pastiche, cult author Djuna Barnes spins an audacious, intricate story of sexuality, power, and praxis.

Ryder, like its namesake, Wendell Ryder, is many things—lyric, prose, fable, illustration; protagonist, bastard, bohemian, polygamist. Born in the 1800s to infamous nonconformist Sophia Grieve Ryder, Wendell’s search for identity takes him from Connecticut to England to multifarious digressions on morality, tradition, and gender. Censored upon its first release in 1928, Ryder’s portrayal of sexuality remains revolutionary despite the passing of time and the expurgations in the text, preserved by Barnes in protest of the war “blindly rag