Ryder
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Ryder

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Ryder

About this book

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 raged against the written word." The weight of Wendell's story endures despite this censorship, as his drive to assume the masculine roles of patriarch and protector comes at the sacrifice of the women around him.

A vanguard modernist, Djuna Barnes has been called the patron literary saint of Bohemia, and her second novel, Ryder, evinces her cutting wit and originality. The nonlinear structure and polyphonic narration pull the reader into Barnes' harlequin world like a riptide, echoing the melodic cascade of James Joyce's Ulysses and the avant-garde feminism of Dorothy Richardson. The novel is a rhapsodic saga that could have come only from Barnes' pen—and politics—as impactful today upon at its first pressing, a document of sexual revolution and censorship.

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Information

Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781628975239
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. A Note on the Text and Illustrations
  8. 1: Jesus Mundane
  9. 2: Those Twain—Sophia’s Parents!
  10. 3: Sophia and the Five Fine Chamber-pots
  11. 4: Wendell Is Born
  12. 5: Rape and Repining!
  13. 6: Portrait of Amelia’s Beginning
  14. 7: Sophia Tells Wendell How He Was Conceived
  15. 8: Pro and Con, or the Sisters Louise
  16. 9: Tears, Idle Tears!
  17. 10: The Occupations of Wendell
  18. 11: However, for the Reader’s Benefit
  19. 12: Amelia Hears from Her Sister in re Hisodalgus, That Fine Horse
  20. 13: Midwives’ Lament, or the Horrid Outcome of Wendell’s First Infidelity
  21. 14: Sophia’s Last Will and Testament
  22. 15: Who Was the Girl?
  23. 16: The Coming of Kate-Careless, a Rude Chapter
  24. 17: What Kate Was Not
  25. 18: Yet for Vindication of Wendell
  26. 19: Amelia and Kate Taken to Bed
  27. 20: Amelia Dreams of the Ox of a Black Beauty
  28. 21: Wendell Dresses His Child
  29. 22: And Amelia Sings a Lullaby
  30. 23: Wendell Tells the Mystery to Julie and to Timothy
  31. 24: Julie Becomes What She Had Read
  32. 25: Amelia Hears from Her Sister in Regard to a Pasty
  33. 26: Kate and Amelia Go A-Dunging
  34. 27: The Beast Thingumbob
  35. 28: If Some Strong Woman—
  36. 29: The Psychology of Nicknames
  37. 30: The Cat Comes Out of the Well
  38. 31: No Greater Love Hath Any Man
  39. 32: The Soliloquy of Dr. Matthew O’Connor (Family Physician to the Ryders) on the Way to and from the Confessional of Father Lucas
  40. 33: Be She What She May
  41. 34: They Do Not Much Agree
  42. 35: Amelia Hears from Her Sister in Regard to Timothy
  43. 36: Amelia Tells a Bed-Time Story
  44. 37: Sweetly Told
  45. 38: Dr. Matthew O’Connor and the Children
  46. 39: Wendell Discusses Himself with His Mother
  47. 40: Old Wives’ Tale, or the Knit Codpieces
  48. 41: Wherein Sophia Goes A-Begging
  49. 42: Amelia Hears from Her Sister on the Misfortunes of Women
  50. 43: Timothy Strives Greatly with a Whore
  51. 44: Fine Bitches All, and Molly Dance
  52. 45: Dr. Matthew O’Connor Talks to Wendell on Holy Inspiration
  53. 46: Ryder—His Race
  54. 47: Going To, and Coming From
  55. 48: Elisha in Love with the Maiden
  56. 49: Three Great Moments of History
  57. 50: Whom Should He Disappoint Now?
  58. Afterword by Paul West
  59. About the Author