"Destiny and history are untidy."
Nightwood (1936)
American writer, journalist, and artist Djuna Barnes died #OTD in 1982.
"Ryder" was Barnes's first novel, a semi-autobiographical and highly experimental work. "Nightwood" is widely regarded as Barnes's masterpiece. The novel is a dense, poetic exploration of love, identity, and despair, set in the bohemian world of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.
Books by Djuna Barnes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/51179